Accident Sorèze "The Brakes Failed" Say Passengers

"I pressed the bell and I noticed that the bus continued to drive fast. Then the receiver told all passengers gather at the rear of the vehicle because the brakes did not take, " says Vicky Khemloliva-Gobin, an employee of Island Clothing Ltd.. The young man just went to his place of work and it was down to the bus stop in Montebello.

According to his testimony, it was from the moment he pressed the bell for the driver found that the brakes were released. "I was talking to a colleague on the phone. He had me back in Montebello and hearing what the recipient said the passengers, I told him that I never see him again maybe not ... then the bus took a first barrel, then another and when I opened eyes, the bus was returned, my friend and people have made me out of there. This is a big shock! " says the thirty, who was rushed to Victoria Hospital.

For its part, Usha Doorundhur, 42, also a passenger bus of the National Transport Company (NTC) said she noticed that the bus was sudden stops from Quatre-Bornes. "I saw that something was not right when the bus stopped. When the recipient said that the brakes do not want to take up to Sorèze, I was very scared. The bus began to shake and I only remember the moment I got out of the bus, " said the mother to Dr. AG Jeetoo hospital. She had shots and fractures.

While at Sorèze the bloodhounds of the police and firefighters were trying to secure the bus lest it catch fire, the wounded were transported to the hospital Jeetoo in Port Louis and Victoria Hospital in Candos . Paramedics clinical Apollo Bramwell were also on the scene.

At mid-day, the reception of Dr. AG Jeetoo hospital was packed with people. People gathered, anxious, trying to see the list of victims, hoping not to see the names of their loved ones listed.

Richard Pokhun would not believe it when he saw that his sister was indeed among the victims of this terrible tragedy. "Delphine leaves behind a little boy of three years. She went to Port Louis in order to recover his identity card. My brother is inconsolable " loose this young man.Delphine Pokhun, aged 21, has not survived this tragedy.

The side of the Marimootoo family is also consternation after the death of Ruth Marimootoo a woman entrepreneur aged 50. "My mother was a friend to me. My husband does not recover soon because of very attached to his mother. She was a strong woman who loved life and his granddaughter, " reflects Wendy Marimootoo.

The drama also shook Ujodha family. Priya, 40, and her husband, Sanjay Ujodha, 48, also died in horrible conditions leaving behind a single girl aged 11 years.

The other victims are: Dinesh Cheeneebash, 19 ans, Amrine Lallmohamed, 24 ans, Chuna Hu Jian, 24 ans, une étudiante chinoise, Deepchand Guness, 50 ans, le chauffeur de l’autobus, Shakoontalah Ramdoorsing, 48 ans et Kamla Devi Soobraydoo, 57 ans. Le receveur de l’autobus, Vishuanath Bundhoo est, quant à lui, admis à l’unité des soins intensifs de l’hôpital Jeetoo.