YANGON (XINHUA) – Seven people were killed and 17 others injured after a minibus plunged into a deep ditch in Myanmar on Monday, an official from the Myanmar Rescue Organization (Mandalay) said yesterday.
“We conducted rescue operations with ropes and cranes,” the official told Xinhua yesterday.
The accident occurred at around 11.30am on Monday in Ywangan township of Shan state, he added. The minibus was returning from Heho town, where the passengers participated in a religious ritual, and was heading to Mandalay for pilgrimage activities before heading back to Yangon, the rescue organisation said.
The vehicle was carrying 28 people when the accident occurred. Of the injured, seven were in critical condition, it said.
