After fight, the bus falls to the river. Passengers are presumed dead

Benijing.- A fight between a bus driver and a passenger that his stop was lost caused the bus fell from a high bridge into the Yangtze River of Chinapolice said Friday. The 15 people on board are presumed dead.

An eight-second surveillance video released by Chongqing City Police on its Weibo social network account shows the two fighting and fighting each other in the moments preceding the bus Suddenly he deviated on the approaching traffic and leave the bridge Sunday morning.

Buses in China often have surveillance cameras.

According to a statement from the Wanzhou District Police, the 48-year-old passenger asked the driver to stop, but he did not do so. He walked to the driver's seat and scolded him.

The driver has repeatedly turned his head back to argue.

When the fight intensified, according to the statement, the woman hit the driver in the head with his mobile phone. The driver removed his right arm from the steering wheel and defended himself. He grabbed her by the arm when she attacked him again, then headed quickly to the left, leaving the bus uncontrollable.

Chongqing Police also released a video of a dashcam from a nearby car showing that the bus collided with an oncoming vehicle before breaking a guardrail and falling into the Yangtze, an important river in southwestern China.

The Wanzhou police statement stated that the conduct of the driver and the passenger seriously endangered public safety and constituted a violation of the law.

Rescuers raised the wreck of the river bus Wednesday night. Thirteen bodies were found and two are still missing, the official Xinhua news agency reported.