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17 killed in S Korea bus crash

Updated at: 1023 PST, Thursday, December 17, 2009 SEOUL: Seventeen passengers have been killed and 14 injured after a bus skidded off a mountain road and rolled down a slope in South Korea's southeastern city of Gyeongju, police said Thursday. The tourist bus crashed Wednesday evening when it was carrying 31 people, mostly in their 70s, back home from a spa in the city 370 kilometers (230 miles) southeast of Seoul, local police officials said. Investigators were still looking into the cause of the accident, which left the bus almost flattened some 20 meters down from the mountain road. Police said the death toll could rise as some of the injured remain in serious condition. About 240 rescue workers rushed to the scene and took the injured to nearby hospitals. http://www.geo.tv/12-17-2009/54925.htm