(2 Oct 2024)
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Bangkok – 2 October 2024
1. Relative of bus crash victim leaving hospital, guided by officials
2. Ambulance leaving with relative inside
3. Various of ambulance with body of victim inside leaving hospital
4. Various of police standing to attention as ambulances leave
5. Various of relative leaving hospital and being led to ambulance
6. Various of relatives or people associated with victim crying
STORYLINE:
Bodies of victims of the school bus crash that killed 23 mostly young students in suburban Bangkok were released by hospital to relatives earlier Wednesday.
Grieving relatives boarded ambulances, in preparation for a return to their homes in Uthai Thani province, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Bangkok.
The families were driven to the forensic department at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok to provide DNA samples for the identification process.
Lines of police stood to attention as the ambulance convoys departed.
The bus carrying six teachers and 39 students in elementary and junior high school was traveling from Uthai Thani province for a school trip in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces Tuesday.
The fire started while the bus was on a highway north of the capital and spread so quickly many were unable to escape.
The driver, identified by the police as Saman Chanput, surrendered Tuesday evening several hours after the fire.
Police said they have charged him with reckless driving causing deaths and injuries, failing to stop to help others and failing to report the accident.
The driver told investigators he was driving normally until the bus lost balance at its front right tire, hit another car and scraped a concrete highway barrier, causing sparks that ignited the blaze, Chayanont Meesati, deputy regional police chief, told reporters.
The driver said he ran to grab a fire extinguisher from another bus that was traveling on the same trip but could not put out the fire, and ran away because he panicked, Chayanont said.
AP video by Tian Macleod Ji
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