TUNIS, April 19 (Xinhua) -- A total of 23 tourists of several different nationalities were injured after a tourist bus veered off road in the southern suburbs of the Tunisian capital Tunis, the state radio station reported on Friday.

"The accident occurred at about 5:45 a.m. local time (0445 GMT), when a tourist bus, carrying 23 tourists, veered off road in the Borj Cedria district coming from Sousse province in east-central Tunisia," the radio station quoted Moez Triaa, the spokesman for the Civil Protection Department as saying.

The bus was heading to Carthage International Airport in Tunis.

Triaa said the injured have been transferred to hospitals in Tunis, and an investigation has been launched to uncover the circumstances of this incident. Enditem

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