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One person has died and at least nine people were hurt after a bus overturned near Stanstead, Que., on Friday, police said.
At least two passengers were severely injured in the crash, and at least seven passengers suffered minor injuries.
Police described the person who died as a woman in her 60s from Hong Kong.
The bus, which was carrying roughly 30 passengers to Boston, was southbound on Highway 55 when a driver in a pickup truck cut in front of it near Curtis Road, police said.
"The driver tried to keep control of the bus, but lost control, went on the right shoulder of the road, hit a post, flipped on the side and finished in the middle of the highway," provincial police Sgt. Marc Butz said.
Butz said police closed the highway to investigate the crash, which happened approximately five kilometres from the Canada-U.S. border.
The bus was operated by Big Apple Bus Tours, a New York-based company. A company representative said Friday night that a bus was on the way to the scene of the accident to pick up the remaining passengers.
Stanstead is about 160 kilometres southeast of Montreal. |
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