Tasikmalaya, W Java (ANTARA) - Allegedly because the driver was sleepy, a bus carrying school teachers and employees plunged into a 10-meter ravine and caused three people died and a number of others injured in Tasikmalaya District, West Java, early on Saturday.
Acting chief of the traffic unit of Tasikmalaya City Police, First Inspector Soni Alamsyah said here that the bus carrying teachers and employees of state elementary school SDN Sayang, Jatinagor, Sumedang District, West Java, met with an accident while traveling from Bandung to Tasikmalaya.
Based on the investigation, the driver fell asleep and lost control of the bus, which then fell into a 10-meter ravine in Rajapolah area, Tasikmalaya, he said.
All the injured passengers were taken to a nearby public health service post and hospital in Tasikmalaya City for medical treatment.
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