Nine people have been killed and 39 injured in a bus crash in the north-western United States, according to local media. The driver lost control on an icy road on Sunday, and the vehicle broke through a guardrail and tumbled 30 metres near Pendleton, Oregon, at around 10:30 am (1830 GMT), the Oregonian newspaper said quoting authorities.
More than a dozen of the victims remain in hospital. The driver was seriously injured and could not yet be questioned on the details of the accident. Oregon State Police said the cause of the accident was likely icy roads, though an investigation was still under way. "I thought I was going to die," said one survivor, a 17-year-old Korean boy with a broken collarbone, who spoke to the newspaper via a translator and refused to give his name.
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