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Published May 06, 2026, 06:35 PM
Updated May 06, 2026, 06:35 PM
JAKARTA – A collision on May 6 between a passenger bus and an oil tanker on Indonesia’s Sumatra island killed 16 people and injured four, a disaster agency official told AFP.
“Fourteen passengers of the bus and two people from the oil tanker died” in the lunchtime crash in North Musi Rawas Regency, South Sumatra, official Hasbi Hasidqi said by telephone as local TV broadcast images of wreckage in flames.
More to come. AFP


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