Indonesia tourist bus crash kills 14

SURABAYA: At least 14 people were killed and more than a dozen injured when a bus carrying domestic tourists crashed into an advertising sign in Indonesia’s East Java province early yesterday, police said.

The bus, which was carrying 31 passengers, the driver and a crew member, hit the pole and then rolled over on a toll road connecting the town of Mojokerto to the country’s second city, Surabaya.

The victims were from Benowo, a village near Surabaya, and were returning home after a long weekend at popular holiday destination Dieng Plateau, about 400km away in Central Java, local official Ridwan Mubarun told Indonesian television station Metro TV.