PHANG-NGA: The driver was killed and 19 Chinese tourists hurt, four seriously, when their tour bus crashed into a power pole in Takua Thung district on Friday morning.

The double-decker bus was carrying the tourists from a hotel in Krabi to Ban Ta Noon pier in Takua Thung district. It ran off the road and into a power pole on a straight section of tarmac near an intersection on Phetkasem Road in tambon Krasom around 8am, Thai media reported.

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BANGKOK POST ONLINE REPORTERS