(12 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Subang, West Java, Indonesia – 11 May 2024
1. Ambulances sounding sirens at site of accident
2. Crowd around an overturned bus with a body covered with a cloth next to the overturned bus
3. People carrying injured person on stretcher, bodies covered with white cloths on the ground
4. Body covered with cloth next to overturned car
5. Ambulance leaving
6. Hospital staff moving injured people to hospital beds
7. Pan right of injured people lying on hospital bed
8. Hospital staff pushing stretcher with injured student on it to be put into an ambulance for transfer to another hospital
STORYLINE:
A bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in Indonesia’s West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others, officials said Sunday.
The bus carrying 61 students and teachers was returning to a high school in Depok outside Jakarta, the capital, late Saturday from the hilly resort area of Bandung after a graduation celebration, said West Java police spokesperson Jules Abraham Abast.
It sped out of control on a downhill road and crossed lanes, hitting several cars and motorbikes before it crashed into an electricity pole, he said.
Nine people died at the scene and two others died later in the hospital, including a teacher and a local motorist, Abast said.
Fifty-three other people were hospitalized with injuries, including some in critical condition, he said.
Associated Press footage showed the mangled bus in the darkness on its side, surrounded by rescuers, police and passersby as ambulances evacuated the injured.
Road accidents are common in Indonesia due to poor safety standards and infrastructure.
Last year, a tourist bus with an apparently drowsy driver slammed into a billboard on a highway in East Java, killing at least 14 people and injuring 19 others.
In 2021, a tourist bus plunged into a ravine in the West Java hilly resort of Puncak after its brakes apparently malfunctioned, killing at least 27 people and injuring 39 others.
AP video shot by Agus Muhammad
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