One dead, others hositalised after bus plunges over precipice

 

One person is dead and six others hospitalised after a bus travelling from Cambridge to Montego Bay went over a precipice on Long Hill in St. James.

 

Superintendent Eron Samuels, acting head of the St. James Police, said the injured includes four students and two adults. 

 

"I personally don't know the condition of those individuals as yet, but I know that I saw persons who walked out of this accident and went to where the fire truck and the other ambulances were at the top of the precipice. So I'm sure that we have some more persons other than those seven persons that I accounted for," Superintendent Samuels said on Radio Jamaica's Beyond the Headlines late Thursday afternoon. 

 

He said heavy rains temporarily impeded rescue efforts but teams from the emergency services including firefighters and the police worked to ensure all the injured were removed.