Tour Bus Crashes on Wet New Zealand Road, 5 Chinese Killed

Tour Bus Crashes on Wet New Zealand Road, 5 Chinese Killed
Survivors from a tourist bus crash walk along the highway in the Mamaku Ranges near Rotorua, New Zealand onSept. 4. 2019. A bus carrying a group of Chinese tourists crashed near a popular New Zealand tourist town. Ben Fraser/Rotorua Daily Post via AP
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A tour bus carrying Chinese tourists flipped in rainy weather near a New Zealand tourist town on the morning of Sept. 4, killing five Chinese nationals and seriously injuring two others, police said.

Police Inspector Brent Crowe told media that the medium-sized tour bus was carrying 27 people and was about 20 minutes north of Rotorua at just after 11 a.m. when it failed to negotiate a bend on a highway.