mobanmarketDubai: At least 17 people died and nine others were seriously injured in a road crash involving a tourist bus on Mohammad Bin Zayed road in Dubai on Thursday, Dubai Police said.
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The tourists bus with Omani number plate was carrying 31 passengers of different nationalities and crashed in to a signboard at Al Rashidiya exit towards the metro station at 5:40pm.
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Gulf News has learned that the crash happened after the driver wrongly entered a road not designated for buses towards Al Rashidiya metro station.
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The bus crashed into a height barrier, which slashed the rear window, cut into the left side of the bus and killed passengers sitting on that side.
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Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Merri, Commander in Chief of Dubai Police, and Dubai’s attorney general Eissam Eissa Al Humaidan with other officials went to the scene.
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The injured were transferred to Rashid Hospital.
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