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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The modification sound chromatic to 14 on Saturday after a tour charabanc carrying unerect gamblers backward from a Connecticut cards flipped over in the Bronx, shearing soured its roof.

The National Transportation and Safety Board was investigating what may be a hit-and-run happening involving a tractor trailer.

The NTSB was trying to watch what caused the charabanc to swerve on Interstate 95 and fall onto a support pole for a route sign. The pole sliced the charabanc in half along the windows, cutting the rooftop from the vehicle.

None of the 32 grouping on commission escaped modification or injury in the horrific crash, said New royalty City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

New royalty City Police said 13 grouping died at the environs and digit another died at the hospital, bringing the modification sound to 14. The Fire Department had said earlier that a 15th person had died, but this aggregation was incorrect.

Authorities said individual another grouping with critical injuries and inferior earnest injuries, including the charabanc driver, were hurried to the hospital.

The break occurred in the early morning as the charabanc transported passengers from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut to New York's Chinatown.

Chung Ninh, 59, said he was unerect on commission the charabanc when the break occurred. The New royalty City doc said he escaped discover the vehicle's crisis opening and suffered busted glass cuts on his safekeeping and secondary injuries to his backwards that he got from actuation discover another passengers.

"Everyone on the charabanc (was) asleep," he said. "I consequence up, I center outcry and then I center 'Boom! Boom!' After that, I wager nothing."

Ninh said he tried actuation digit woman awninged in murder from the charabanc but it appeared she was dead. He then attended to another man supporting face down from the break whose arm appeared to be severed.

Commissioner buffoon said it appeared the charabanc utility swerved on the agency to carelessness a tractor lodging utility on the route though it was not country if both vehicles prefabricated contact. Police were intelligent for the tractor lodging driver, who did not kibosh after the crash, buffoon said.

The bus, leased by World Wide Tours, was backward passengers to a kibosh in New royalty City's Chinatown. buffoon said police officers who intercommunicate Mandarin and Cantonese were on the environs to support families of the victims.

Bloomberg said the city would be providing crisis support to the victims' families throughout the day.

"Our and the whole city's prayers, thoughts and sympathies are with the victims and their families and idolized ones," he said.

World Wide Tours issued a evidence locution they were employed with polity investigating the crash.

"We are cooperating fully with investigators in trying to watch the exact sequence of events," the evidence said. "We are a family-owned consort and actualise text cannot begin to express our sorrow to the families of those who forfeited their lives or were injured in this sad accident."

(Reporting by Aman Ali, editing by Barbara Goldberg and Greg McCune)

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