Briton among at least two dead and more injured after bus plunges into ravine
A British national and another person were killed yesterday in Montenegro when a bus plunged into a ravine.
The unnamed Briton and an unidentified woman were on the bus, carrying 30 passengers, when it swerved on a steep road around noon, police said. Local media reported that the bus was travelling on a road connecting the town of Budva, on the Adriatic Sea coast, with Cetinje, which is located in a mountainous inland area. Nine people have been seriously injured. One of them is in a life-threatening condition, doctors said.
Terrified passengers screamed as the bus skidded some 15m down into the ravine before rescue workers were pictured using equipment to try and hoist the bus out of the gorge. "I was listening to music and all was normal. Then all of sudden there were screams and the sound of glass breaking," one of the passengers told the state RTCG radio. Police said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the two victims died on the spot while the injured received aid in Cetinje.
Rescue workers remove a bus at the accident site on a road near Cetinje (AP)Sanja Vučinić, 24, said she fell out of the vehicle as it landed but remained conscious the whole time. She recalled that she was sitting on the right side in the middle of the bus and was looking at her phone when they hit the embankment. She told Vijesti: "I heard a crash, the screams of the passengers, and that's when we fell. I fell out during the tumbling, I don't really remember that... I don't know how I ended up outside the bus. I think that I stood up immediately, saw that I could stand on my feet, and with some instinct, I managed to get out of the precipice onto the highway." When asked if she noticed anything unusual while driving before the accident, she said that she was not paying attention, but that "the driver was driving a little faster, but everything was normal."
The seriously injured, including the driver, were later transferred to a hospital in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica. "The bus driver is currently in the Cetinje General Hospital and will be transferred to KCCG due to major injuries," duty prosecutor Anđa Radovanović said. Local news said the scale of the tragedy could have been much worse if the thick branches and bushes had not cushioned the fall and stopped the bus from plunging even deeper into the ravine.
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"The scenes were horrible, screams and blood everywhere. Those who were the first to come across the tragedy went down to them first, so the rescue teams just arrived. Some were fine, they could walk, while most of the passengers were seriously injured," an unnamed young man who came across the scene of the tragedy shortly after the accident told Vijesti.
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