A public bus hit a wall in the Praça do Tap Seac underpass yesterday evening, and a boy on the bus was injured by glass shards from the window of the vehicle, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said in a statement.
According to the statement, the bureau received a report at around 6 p.m. about a traffic accident near the junction of Rua de Sacadura Cabral and Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida that a bus had hit the wall while going through the underpass beneath Praça do Tap Seac, causing the rear left window to break.
A 10-year-old boy on the bus sustained cuts to his forearms and head.
The boy was taken to hospital in an ambulance for outpatient treatment accompanied by his mother.
Firefighters, traffic police and staff members of the bus company rushed to the scene to investigate the cause and circumstances of the accident, according to the statement.
