A glacier-watching bus overturned Saturday at a popular Rocky Mountain tourist site in western Alberta, killing three and injuring several others, Canadian media reported.
The all-terrain bus overturned for an undetermined reason Saturday afternoon in the Columbia Glacier area in Jasper National Park in Alberta, the CBC public broadcaster said. Photos posted on social networks by witnesses to the accident show an object overturned on the roof among the rocks, on an inclined slope.
Many injured also
The accident involved a Pursuit bus, which transports tourists on all-terrain vehicles to the Athabasca glacier, according to CBC. Of the 27 passengers on the bus, three adults were killed and "a number of other passengers were seriously injured", according to a report by the federal police quoted by the Canadian media.
Several helicopters and ground ambulances were mobilized to evacuate the injured to hospitals in the region, according to television. The accident occurred in one of the most touristic areas of Western Canada along the Glacier Parkway, a scenic highway that runs through Banff and Jasper National Parks.
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