Bus crash in Syria kills 19

Damascus - A high-speed bus collision in Syria yesterday killed 19 people and left 12 others injured, the official SANA news …

Damascus - A high-speed bus collision in Syria yesterday killed 19 people and left 12 others injured, the official SANA news agency said.

The bus plowed into a minibus near the central Syrian city of Palmyra north of Damascus, it said, adding that survivors said the bus had been travelling at "excessive speed."

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