25 people killed in Saudi bus accident

Riyadh: Twenty-five people were killed on Friday when a bus overturned in southwest Saudi Arabia. Eight other people were injured, some seriously, when the Saudi Public Transport Co bus overturned in Abha, a spokesman for the police in the Asir region, where Abha is located, told the official SPA news agency.

An initial investigation indicated that the accident was caused by faulty brakes, said spokesman Colonel Abdullah Bin Ayedh Al Qarni.