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20 foreigners, overseas Vietnamese panic as van nearly falls into HCMC canal

Friday, February 27, 2015, 13:39 GMT+7

Twenty foreigners and overseas Vietnamese panicked when their tourist van narrowly avoided falling into a canal from a bridge in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday after hitting the bridge’s barrier due to a flat tire.

The frightening incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon when a 24-seat bus carrying the 20 guests suddenly got a flat tire and crashed into the barrier of the Lo Gom 2 Bridge on the direction towards the Thu Thiem Tunnel in District 1.

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