BANGKOK - One Chinese tourist was killed and more than 20 others injured when their bus plunged five meters down the road in Phuket in southern Thailand, a Chinese diplomat told Xinhua on Saturday.
The bus carrying 26 Chinese tourists from Chongqing in Southwest China lost control and veered off the road on Saturday morning, said Wu Xiufeng, a diplomat with the Chinese consulate in Songkhla.
The injured people were sent to hospital, two of them were seriously injured, she added.
The bus with 31 people on board was heading from the tourist destination of Phuket Town to Coral Island.
