TWO people have been killed in a horror head-on collision involving a TUI tourist bus on the holiday island of Lanzarote.
A six-year-old boy is among another two who were rushed to hospital following the fatal crash on a road to the Playa Blanca resort.
Two people have died after a tourist bus and car collided head-on Credit: Solarpix
The mangles wreck of the car involved in the horror crash Credit: Solarpix
Shocking images from the scene showed the mangled car and the badly-damaged TUI bus with its front caved in and its windscreen smashed.
The two dead were adults travelling with a young child in the car.
The six-year-old child and a 36-year-old passenger travelling on the bus were also hurt.
Local police, Civil Guard, paramedics and firefighters raced to the scene after the alarm was raised at around 7.45pm on Thursday
The road the crash happened on, near a Repsol petrol station, is the LZ-2.
Eight passengers are believed to have been on the bus along with the driver.
It was not immediately clear this morning 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.
In April a British pensioner was killed in a horror bus crash in another Canary Island – La Gomera.
Twenty-seven passengers including the dead man’s wife were also hospitalised.
The packed bus they were on came off the road on a bend on April 10 and plunged 100ft down a ravine.
The Brits on board the crash vehicle, who included three minors, were starting their journey back to the UK after finishing their holidays at a 102-apartment resort in Playa de Santiago on La Gomera’s southernmost tip called El Balcon de Santa Ana.
It was the second fatal crash on the same GM-2 road connecting the capital San Sebastian 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 road just over a mile away and tumbled down a hill.
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