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5 killed, 51 injured as bus plunges off cliff in Thailand
Last Updated:2013-04-08 12:42 | Xinhua
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Five people were killed and 51 others injured when a tour bus plunged down a roadside cliff in northern Thailand early Monday, police said.

The bus, en route from Udon Thani to Chiang Mai, veered off the main road and plunged down a roadside cliff in Phitsanulok about 2 a.m. local time.

The five people who died included a foreign woman tourist and a Thai baby boy.

It took over two hours for the rescue workers to extricate the survivors from the mangled wreckage and send them to hospitals. One of them is a foreign woman tourist with four-month pregnancy.

The accident was being investigated. Police suspect it was caused by a brake problem.

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