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The accident happened at 3 am while the bus was running down the hill on Nadee – Kabin Buri Road in Moo 4 village of Tambon Bupram in Prachin Buri’s Nadee district.

The bus carried 43 students and lecturers as well as three staffs of Khon Kaen Agriculture and Technology University’s Faculty of Livestock and Agriculture Business. There were also a driver and four bus staff.

Prachin Buri police chief Pol Maj Gen Sanyachai Chaiamporn said the students, who were studying in a weekend course, were heading for a field study in Chanthaburi’s Khoon Kraben Bay.

He said the bus developed a brake malfunction and the driver could not slow it down when it was running down the hill on the sharp curve part of the road.

He said the driver decided to slam the bus into a sane dune designed for emergency stop.

However, the bus climbed up the sand dune and overturned on another hill.
Police said 18 men and three women were killed while 23 other men and four women were injured.

The injured were rushed to the Nadee district Hospital, Kabin Buri district Hospital, Wang Nam Khiew district Hospital. Four of them were passed on the provincial hospital.

Anucha Mokavej, director-general of the Civil Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, visited the scene of the accident at 10:20 am.