14 killed in a car crash in Yemen's Taiz

A passenger bus overturned while driving Sunday in a mountainous area in Yemen's Taiz, killing at least 14 people.

The vehicle was traveling on a highway overlooking a rocky area in the Maqatra district when it suffered a mechanical failure and tumbled to the ground, according to local sources.

The bus was transporting 14 passengers from the southern province of Aden, the seat of the internationally recognized government, to the southwestern province of Taiz.

It said only one person survived the crash and was taken to hospital for treatment.

Deadly traffic crashes are not uncommon in Yemen, where a decade of civil war wrecked the country´s infrastructure. The crashes claim thousands of lives every year and are mostly caused by speeding, bad roads, or poor enforcement of traffic laws.