Twenty-one people died and nine people were severely injured Saturday after a driver lost control of bus in Indonesia which plunged into a 98-foot-deep ravine.
Sept. 8 (UPI) — Twenty-one people died and nine people were severely injured Saturday after a driver lost control of a bus in Indonesia which plunged into a 98-foot-deep ravine.
A hospital employee confirmed the casualties .
The bus was part of a convoy of four buses carrying PT Catur Putra Group employees to a tourist destination in Cikidang for rafting, Daeng Sutikna, a senior official at the disaster management agency in Sukabumi district told Xinhua .
The driver lost control of the bus when driving on Cikidang road Saturday afternoon in the West Java province and plunged into a 98-foot-deep ravine, Sutikna said.
West Java Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko said that he suspected the bus may have had a faulty brake causing the driver to lose control while driving down the steep road.
