Thirty tourists from Hong Kong were injured after a bus accident in Thailand on the second day of Thai traditional new year holidays, local police said Saturday.

The tourists, half of them women, were injured when their bus hit a traffic island while heading to the resort city of Pattaya at Friday noon. Local police believed the accident was caused by a slippery road.

The injuries were not considered serious, local report said.

Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said 393 people had been killed in road accidents in the eight days leading up to the Thai new year holidays. Almost 5,000 people had been injured.

Source: Xinhua