BANGKOK (AFP) – Six people were killed when a semi-trailer collided with a tourist van in a mountainous area near the Thai-Laos border, a Thai police chief said.
The crash happened on a road running between the Laotian provinces of Luang Namtha and Bokeo, about 100 kilometres from a Thai border crossing.
Two tourist vans carrying 20 passengers were travelling from the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai through Laos en route to the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming.
Chiang Rai police chief Kriangsak Tongsiri said six people died in the collision.
“A Laos van driver and five other Thai passengers are dead,” he told AFP.
