Twenty-two dead in Malaysia bus crash: official.

A train carrying Thai tourists crashed upon the Malaysian main road Monday killing twenty-two people upon board after the trip to the Cameron Highlands, authorities said."We hold which twenty-two people were killed in the accident," pronounced Aminuddin Abdul Rahim, spokesman for the Fire as well as Rescue Department, who was during the collision site in central Malaysia."More than fifteen others were harmed as well as have been being treated by rescue officials," he told AFP. "Search as well as rescue operations have been still ongoing as well as we have yet to have the last figure for those dead as well as injured.""All those killed in the collision have been believed to be Thai nationals, this was the traveller train filled with Thai tourists."Zakaria Yusof, behaving police arch in Perak state, pronounced which "more than twenty people have been believed to be dead"."The train was filled with Thai tourists," he told AFP, though was not able to endorse whether all the dead were Thai nationals. "We will know more when we have finished our operations."The Star every day pronounced the train strike the divider as well as overturned as it travelled away from the Cameron Highlands, the single of Malaysia's tip traveller destinations.Some of the approaches to the highlands have been narrow, breezy as well as treacherous, though Monday's collision occurred when the train had reached turn belligerent as well as was upon the highway.Bus crashes have been relatively common in Malaysia, mostly involving interstate buses, as well as accompanied by revelations which drivers were unlicensed, speeding or underneath the change of drugs to keep themselves awake.Last week, 4 prison officers were killed when the train lost control as well as plunged in to the ravine after travelling from the sports tournament.In October the collision involving two buses, the outpost as well as 3 cars claimed thirteen lives upon the nation's main North-South highway.And the year ago, 10 people were killed when the double-decker train stru! ck the r oad divider in northern Ipoh state.http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4532381happy browsing!