Local authorities worked throughout the morning to free trapped people inside the bus and helped save many lives.
But what other way did trapped people have to escape?
Those thirty minutes could mean the difference between life and death to any number of trapped people inside.
Well, there were still things a trapped people could do.
The trapped people managed to break down the front doors, but in trying to escape, were killed by machine gun fire.
It is said that the remaining 15 trapped people had been located, but there are difficulties in approaching them.
It was over 10 hours after the collision before the final trapped people were freed from the wreckage.
Even when the situation was most hopeless, the trapped people were still watching out for one another.
All the trapped people were still alive, but had no idea what lay outside for them.
After a while we feel stuck in that world of trapped people and no imagination.