22 dead and over 40 injured after collision in Dubai

Local police in Dubai say a bus carrying cleaning staff collided with a heavy truck at 8am on Monday morning, with 22 people dead and over 40 injured say local police.

The incident happened on the Al Ain to Abu Dhabi truck road, near Al Rawdah Palace.

Witnesses said most workers died after suffocating in the pile of sand and construction material, witnesses told local media, whilst police deployed helicopters to extract the injured workers covered under a pile of sand at the site of the accident. (NewsPoint)