11 hurt as school van overturns in Surat Thani

Rescue workers try to retrieve injured students and teachers from the wreckage of a van after it skidded off the road into a ditch in Kanchanadit district of Surat Thani on Friday afternoon. (Photo supplied/Supapong Chaolan)
After the van skidded off the road into a trench in Surat Thani’s Kanchanadit neighborhood on Friday afternoon, rescuers attempted to save the wounded students and teachers. ( Photo supplied/Supapong Chaolan )

In the Kanchanadit city of this southwestern state on Friday afternoon, a van carrying nine learners and two teachers who were returning from a camping trip infected their vehicle.

According to Pol Capt Thaweewit Kaewroy, assistant analyst at the Khunthale authorities place in the Muang area, the incident occurred on Highway 44 on the Krabi-Surat Thani course in tambon Thung Rang.

The passenger vehicle with Bangkok license plates was discovered in the trench that divided the road when officers and rescue personnel arrived at the scene. Eleven people, who were teachers and students, were trapped in the aircraft.

Rescue personnel retrieved nine pupils, who were somewhat hurt, from the damaged de and sent them to Surat Thani Hospital.

The two hurt professors, one of whom was the drivers, were taken from the front seats by the rescue squad using a cutting tool. They were even sent to the doctor.

The truck was traveling to Nakhon Si Thammarat for a camping trip with the kids from Thidamaepra School in Krabi state, according to a police research. A vehicle that followed the truck was used by the other students.

The van vehicle lost control of the vehicle, according to police, causing it to tumble off the road and into the drain. The research is continuing.