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Two dead after holiday horror crash involving TUI tourist bus in Lanzarote

Two adults died and two others, including a six-year-old boy, were rushed to hospital after a TUI tourist bus was involved in a head-on crash with a car on Lanzarotes LZ-2

[Accident scene - destroyed car involved in crash with a bus]

Accident scene - destroyed car involved in crash with a bus(Image: SOLARPIX.COM)

Two people have died in a head-on collision involving a tourist bus on the holiday island of Lanzarote. Another two, including a six-year-old boy, were taken to hospital following the horror smash on the road linking the resort of Playa Blanca with the small town of Yaiza in the southwest of the island.

Shocking images from the scene showed the mangled car wreck after the horrendous crash and the badly-damaged TUI bus with its front caved in and its windscreen smashed. The people who died, two adults travelling with a young child, were in the car.

A 36-year-old passenger on the bus was hurt along with the six-year-old who was originally thought to have been in the car before it was reported he was also on the TUI bus.

[Hospital Dr Jose Molina Rosa where the victims were taken for treatment]

Hospital Dr Jose Molina Rosa where the victims were taken for treatment(Image: SOLARPIX.COM)

The alarm was raised shortly before 7.45pm yesterday (June 11), prompting local police, the Civil Guard, paramedics and firefighters to race to the scene on the LZ-2 near a Repsol petrol station. Eight passengers are believed to have been on the bus along with the driver.

It was not immediately clear this morning (June 12) where it was heading to when the accident occurred. The two people killed are understood to have been pronounced dead at the scene.

It is not known yet if they were tourists or lived in Lanzarote. A police investigation into the cause of the crash was ongoing today.

[Accident scene of the bus crash]

Accident scene of the bus crash(Image: SOLARPIX.COM)

More than 1.5 million British tourists visit the Canary Islands every year, making Brits one of the archipelagos largest visitor groups. Most holidays pass without incident, but a number of serious crashes have raised fresh concerns about transport and infrastructure, Channel 4 reported.

In April, a British pensioner was killed in a horror bus crash on La Gomera. 27 passengers, including the mans wife, were taken to hospital.

The packed bus reportedly left the road on a bend on April 10 and plunged around 100ft down a ravine. Britons on board - including three minors - were said to be heading back to the UK after finishing a stay at the 102-apartment El Balcon de Santa Ana resort in Playa de Santiago, on the islands southern tip.

It was the second fatal crash on the same GM-2 road linking the capital, San Sebastin, with the rest of the mountainous island in less than a year. In May last year, a 73-year-old Spanish woman died and 11 others were injured when a public transport bus overturned on a straight stretch of the GM-2 just over a mile away and tumbled down a hillside.

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