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Cruise passengers airlifted to hospital after bus crash
Police have charged a cruise tour bus driver in Vanuatu after a crash which killed three people and left 10 Australian cruise passengers seriously injured.
The tour bus was carrying passengers from the P&O ship Pacific Dawn in Port Vila, the capital of the Pacific island nation.
Carnival Australia executive chairman Ann Sherry said the cruise line will not use the tour operator again until the accident investigation was completed.
“It’s been a terrible incident, obviously, and we have done everything we can to support and ensure that families receive the care they need,” Sherry said.
The bus was involved in a head-on collision with a local commuter bus.
The three people killed were travelling in the local bus, including the driver.
One of most seriously injured cruise passengers is an 11-year old boy, who remains in hospital with head injuries.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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