Six foreign tourists and four other people were killed yesterday when their coach, bound for Koh Phangan, blew a tyre at high speed, veered into a divider strip and slammed into a power pole before flipping on its side in a ditch.

The bus had left Bangkok and was carrying 24 passengers as well as the driver and two attendants at the time of the crash in Surat Thani’s Kanchanadit district.

All of the 17 survivors sustained serious injuries.

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