A Hong Kong tourist bus goes by taxi and 5 people are killed while passengers are flying out of Windows

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Hong Kong: Five people were killed and 32 wounded in the collision between a bus and Hong Airport Kong. with a taxi on Friday, according to the police, pbadengers were reportedly ejected from the windows of the car by the impact.

The back half of the taxi was completely crushed and part of the front of the car had been severed as a result of the accident that occurred on Tsing Island. Yi, pictures in the local media showed: the taxi driver, two men and two women pbadengers of the car were killed in the accident said this.

Local media described the bus as a "tourism coach," but said it was transporting workers to the airport at the time of the accident, occurring near the exit of the bus. A tunnel. Tsing Yi is connected by a highway to Hong Kong International Airport located on the neighboring island of Lantau.
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Television footage showed that the wounded were treated on the side of the road before being taken to four hospitals. The South China Morning Post reported that many of the injured were in serious condition.
A pbadenger said the bus was traveling fast and crashed into a taxi at the stop with his hazard lights lit on the side of the road, according to SCMP. "It seemed to me that the coach had not slowed down." I fell to the ground (when it crashed), said the pbadenger.

A pbadenger told the local TV channel TVB that the scene in the bus was "very chaotic, we were crushed together". Another pbadenger told the channel that his coach had hit the sidewalk several times before coming to a stop.

"The bus hit a bullet, then left and right, then on the edge of the road to stop," said the pbadenger. Television footage showed that the sidewalk on either side of the road was damaged.

The accident occurred at 5:00 am (Thursday at 21:00 GMT). In 2003, a double-decker bus collided with a truck and crashed on a bridge, leaving 21 dead and 20 injured.

A two-storey motorist overturned in the north of Hong Kong in February, leaving 19 dead and more than 60 injured. The bus driver was arrested for dangerous driving. It was the second deadliest bus accident of recent years in the semi-autonomous city of southern China, which boasts one of the best public transport systems in the world.