Kuala Lumpur: A double-decker express bus - carrying mostly foreign tourists, including from India - plunged into a 10-metre-deep ravine in Malaysia`s east coast state of Pahang, killing one British national and injuring 40 others.
The accident occurred when the bus carrying around 40 people, over half of them Singaporeans, fell down a slope along the Kuantan-Segamat trunk road near the Sungai Jernih plantation yesterday.
Pekan district police chief Yahaya Othman said most of the passengers were tourists from Singapore, China and India who had spent the weekend on the tourist island of Pulau Redang.
Yahaya said the deceased was believed to be among the tourists who had earlier left the island and were travelling back to Singapore.
He said the cause of the crash was being investigated.
This was the third incident involving an express bus in Pahang over the past eight days.
On April 12, a double-decker bus hit an electrical pole and overturned in Bentong, killing three passengers.
On Saturday, a bus crashed into a road divider on the East Coast Expressway and flipped over, leaving most of its 28 passengers injured.
