Al-Rafidain Company: Three injured people needed operations, and the rest were discharged from the hospital after ensuring their safety

An administrator at Al-Rafidain Land Transport Company in Qamishlo/Al-Qamishli said, in a special statement to ASO News Network, on Monday, that most of those injured in the Pullman accident on Damascus Road yesterday, Sunday, were discharged from Al-Nabak Hospital in the Damascus countryside after ensuring their safety.

He added that only three injured people remained, and they were transferred to private hospitals in Damascus. He stated that their condition requires operations related to repairing the fractures, most of which are in the forearm, he said.

Yesterday evening, Sunday, four people died, and 21 others were injured when a Pullman belonging to Al-Rafidain Company collapsed near “Al-Hamza Gas Station” on the Homs-Damascus highway.

The ages of the deceased ranged between 40 and 60 years, including three women, whose bodies have not yet been identified, according to the company’s administrator, who refused to reveal his name.

The Syrian Ministry of Interior said, in a statement yesterday published on its official page, that the cause of the accident was excessive speed and slippage due to rainfall, while the company’s administrator indicated that they had checked the tracking devices on the bus, and that the speed was not excessive and was between 85 and 90 kilometres per hour, he said.

He pointed out that the bus that departed yesterday morning from Al-Hasakah Governorate and was supposed to arrive in Damascus in the evening, most of the passengers on it were from Qamishlo/Al-Qamishli and its countryside, as the bus overturned on the right side on the Damascus road near a fuel gas station.

The official of Al-Rafidain Company in Qamishlo stated that the cause of the accident was a slide caused by rainfall, and the leakage of a type of fuel on the road, which made the driver lose control of the bus’s movement.

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