INQUIRY ORDERED
Bus Crash Toll 104 ( N.Z.P.A .’Reuter—Copyright) GIFU (Japan), August 19. The Japanese Prime Minister (Mr Eisaku Sato) today ordered Government investigators to help pin-point the responsibility for yesterday’s bus tragedy, the death toll of which may be the highest in the history of road transport. The police at Kamo, a community near the accident site, said new information showed there were 107 people aboard the two buses when they were swept into a rain-swollen river by a landslide yesterday. Most of them were women and children heading for a week-end outing to the Japanese Alps. Only three people, including the driver of one of the buses, managed to swim to safety before the vehicles sank in 65 feet of water. Rescuers today found the bodies of nine more victims, increasing to 32 the number of bodies recovered.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31762, 20 August 1968, Page 13
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