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UN troops 'armed DR Congo rebels' ... others injured when a tour bus crashed on a Hong Kong road, police say.

The accident happened at around 0900 (0100 GMT) in Sai Kung in the eastern part of the territory.

A spokesman for the Hong Kong police said that the driver appeared to have lost control of the bus near a roundabout.

Television footage showed elderly passengers being helped from the wreckage of the bus.

"The coach was approaching a roundabout and appears to have lost control and overturned on the road near the roundabout," the police spokesman told the French news agency AFP.

"Fifteen people have died in the incident and 49 have been taken to hospital," he said.

The nationality of the victims was not yet clear, the police spokesman said.

(BBC)

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