Bus Slides Off Road Into Gorge Killing 18

Eighteen people have died and 28 others have been injured after a bus slid off the road and crashed into a gorge in Montenegro.

The initial death toll of 16 from Sunday's crash rose overnight as two people succumbed to injuries in hospital in the capital Podgorica, a police official said.

Twenty-seven other passengers in the bus carrying mostly elderly tourists were injured, and several remained in critical condition.

All 46 passengers aboard the Romanian bus were pulled from a 50-metre (160-foot) deep ravine near the river Moraca.

The crash occurred when the bus slid off the road into a gorge in a mountainous region about 18 miles from Podgorica.

"The driver drove a little too fast and the bus slid," a survivor Carmen Dorobet told Montenegrin media.

The identities of the victims have not yet been revealed.

A 12-year old Montenegrin boy was also injured as he walked along the road when the bus struck him. The boy was also hospitalised but his injuries were not life threatening, doctors said.

The road from mountainous northern Montenegro towards Podgorica has been the scene of frequent crashes.

In 2006, a train slid off the railroad in the same area, with 47 passengers killed.