A bus accident in Delaware on Sunday left two people dead and several injured, authorities said.
The accident happened near Red Lion Road off Route 1 in the community of Bear, about 12 miles south of Wilmington. Authorities have launched a probe into the incident and are interrogating the bus driver, Jinli Zhao, 56.
According to the officials, it was a single-vehicle accident. However, they stated that the cause remained unclear.
In a news release, Delaware State Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Shavack said there were 49 passengers on the bus when it was travelling on an exit ramp. It was going through a curve when it left the road and overturned. It slipped on its roof down a grass embankment, Shavack said. The crash happened as the bus was returning to New York.
Two women, a 54-year-old from New York and a 30-year-old from Istanbul, were declared dead.
"I guess she was trapped underneath the bus," Elvis D'cruz, a 19-year-old college student from New Castle, Del., said, according to NBC 10. "One man was saying, 'my wife, my wife, my life.' That keeps replaying in my mind."
"It must've been within five minutes of the crash," D'cruz said. "There were about two to three other civilians there helping out. The bus had flipped over onto its side and some people were still underneath it."
Other passengers were taken to nearby hospitals for injuries varying in severity. They were a part of a three-day sightseeing tour to Washington that began Friday in New York, authorities said.
