Two dead and 12 injured after runaway school bus hits pedestrians in Hong Kong

Two people have been killed and 12 injured after a runaway school bus ploughed into pedestrians in Hong Kong, according to reports.

Shocking video footage shows the driver getting out of the bus, which had been parked outside North Point Methodist Primary School, before it starts rolling downhill and he attempts to stop it.

The bus then careered down the road before mounting a pavement and hitting passers-by, according to the South China Morning Post.

The incident happened at the junction of King’s Road and Hei Wo Street in North Point shortly before 2pm.

One witness told Radio Television Hong Kong that he was lucky to have escaped unharmed.

Mr Chan said: “I saw an empty school bus speed down the slope. It glanced off a taxi and lost control, crashing over there. Right here there were some vendors selling things, and several got hit.

“I was almost unlucky. I was quite scared, as you’d expect.

“I didn’t dare look back because I knew something bad had happened. I just took a quick glimpse, and saw some people lying on the road.

“I didn’t look closely. There were at least four or five people – one of them was under the bus.”

A Police spokesman said: “An initial investigation shows a school bus mounted a pavement and people were trapped under the vehicle.”

It was thought there was no one on board the bus at the time.

The injured were taken to Ruttonjee Hospital in Wan Chai and Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan for treatment.