20 killed, 9 hurt in Malaysia bus crash

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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (AP): At least 20 people died when an express bus overturned on Malaysia's main highway Monday, tearing off the vehicle's roof and flinging seats into the air in what officials said was the country's worst traffic disaster.
Nineteen people were killed at the scene and one died at a nearby hospital in the northern town of Taiping, local fire department spokesman Amirudin Kamarudin told The Associated Press.
Nine other people on the bus were hospitalised, including a young boy and a man who were in intensive care, said a hospital doctor who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorised to speak to the media.
"The impact of the accident ripped off the roof," Raja Musa Raja Razak, the police chief of the area, told the AP by telephone from the site in Bukit Gantang, about 125 miles north of Kuala Lumpur.
The driver was among the dead, Raja Musa said. Previous police and news reports erroneously said the driver was injured.