YANGON, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and four others injured as an ambulance crashed into a truck in Myanmar's Yangon, an official from a local rescue organization said on Monday.
The crash took place near a junction in Shwepyitha township in Yangon at around 7:45 p.m. local time when an ambulance swerved to avoid a pedestrian crossing the road but ended up colliding with a truck, the rescue official said.
The rescue official from the Kanaung rescue organization told Xinhua that the dead included a male volunteer and a female patient on the ambulance, and the injured included three people on the ambulance and a pedestrian.
"The volunteer died on the spot and the patient died at the hospital," he said, adding that his rescue team helped shift victims to the hospital.
