Hanoi - Two people were killed and 15 injured when two buses collided on the main national highway in southern Vietnam's Ninh Thuan province, a traffic policeman said Thursday.

Officer Pham Van Bay of the Ninh Thuan provincial traffic police said a bus travelling from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi swerved to avoid a motorbike Wednesday evening and hit an oncoming bus. A passenger on the first bus was killed, and a motorcyclist was killed when the bus ran over him before plunging off the road into a rice field.

Fifteen passengers were being treated at Ninh Thuan Province's General Hospital.

According to the National Committee for Traffic Safety, traffic accidents kill 30 people and injure 60 others every day in Vietnam. (dpa)