YANGON, Oct 17 (NNN-MNA) – Two people were killed and four others injured, as an ambulance crashed into a truck, in Yangon, an official from a local rescue organisation said, yesterday.
The crash took place near a junction in Shwepyitha township in Yangon, at around 7:45 p.m. local time, when an ambulance swerved to avoid a pedestrian crossing the road, but ended up colliding with a truck, the rescue official said.
The rescue official from the Kanaung rescue organisation said that, the dead included a male volunteer and a female patient in the ambulance, and the injured included three people in the ambulance and a pedestrian.
“The volunteer died on the spot, while the patient died at the hospital,” he said, adding that, his rescue team helped shift victims to the hospital.– NNN-MNA
