13 killed, 6 injured in tour bus accident in NY

Thirteen people were killed and at least six critically injured when a tour bus overturned on a highway in New York on Saturday, The New York Times reported.

"The bus flipped over, slid on its side, hit a light pole," the newspaper quoted a city fire department spokesman as saying.

"The light pole stood intact and sheared the whole top of the bus off," the spokesman said. "It went through the whole bus form front to rear."

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