Vietnam bus crash kills 11, Russian tourists on board

A bus with 24 Russian tourists on board crashed in south-central Vietnam, killing at least 11people, state-run media and a provincial official said on Saturday. The bus, carrying the tourists and another two Vietnamese women including an interpreter, fell off a hillside road around midnight on Friday in Binh Thuan province, the media quoted the bus driver as saying. "Eight people died right at the site and three others died in hospital," a provincial information desk official said by telephone. She said the nationalities of the deceased were not immediately clear. Binh Thuan police declined comment.

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