Cruise ship in Qld after Vanuatu crash

A cruise ship has returned to Brisbane after an eventful voyage during which 10 passengers were injured in a bus crash in Vanuatu.

A cruise ship from which passengers were hurt in a fatal bus crash in Vanuatu has returned to Brisbane.

P&O's Pacific Dawn made port just before dawn, bringing to an end an eventful cruise for the wrong reasons for some voyagers.

Ten Australians were injured when a tour bus was involved in a head-on collision with a commuter bus on Monday. Three locals died.

The last of the injured Australian passengers - an 11-year-old boy with serious head injuries and his mother and brother - returned to the Gold Coast on Friday.

Seven others, including a 4-year-old girl, were flown back to Queensland on Tuesday and Wednesday and are recovering in Brisbane hospitals.

Most have femur and hip fractures.

The worst injured, a 76-year-old woman, is in the intensive care unit of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.

The driver of the tourist bus has been charged with dangerous driving causing death, according to Vanuatu's Daily Post.


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