Bus crash kills 8 on Yangon-Mandalay highway

The accident happened on the road from Yangon to Mandalay. PHOTO/WIKICOMMONS

Eight people were killed on Saturday after a passenger bus slammed into a Toyota Hilux on the Yangon-Mandalay highway.

A further 14 were injured in the crash, which happened in Naypyitaw’s Tatkon township, according to state-run newspaper The Global New Light of Myanmar.

They were taken to a nearby hospital in Naypyitaw.

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