Minibus crashes into house

An elderly woman and her 14-year-old disabled granddaughter escaped serious injury yesterday afternoon when an out-of-control minibus crashed into their Lot 19 West Front Road Squatting area home.

A shaken Bebe Salima Kharoun, 58, said she was asleep in a bedroom at the front of the house, right where the bus hit it, when she heard “bam!” and was thrown from her bed.

Kharoun, who has been living at that spot since 1987, said when she went to investigate she saw the bus which had crashed through the fence