A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl is fighting for her life after being injured when a bus smashed into a supermarket — killing a pensioner and a young boy.
The lad, aged eight, and the OAP, in her 70s, died yesterday after a double-decker ploughed into a Sainsbury’s store.
Police have launched an investigation into the cause of the smash, which happened at 5.45pm in busy Coventry city centre.
A police spokesman confirmed the nine-year-old victim, who was travelling on the upper deck of the bus, is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.
A further casualty also remains in hospital.
The boy who died, from Leamington Spa, Warwicks, was on the top deck of the bus. The other fatality, a woman in her 70s from Nuneaton, Warwicks, was a pedestrian.
Witness Harron Mota, 29, said: “It was horrific, absolute mayhem. God knows what happened but it is a terrible tragedy. The city was really busy at that time of night with shoppers.
“Several passengers on the bus and shoppers in the store were trapped.”
Jordan Pearson, 18, an apprentice chef, said: “They cut open the side of the bus and got everybody off. I saw quite a few walking wounded and people being carried out on stretchers.
“There were four ambulances and loads of police cars. I saw body bags.”
Police confirmed two people had died in the smash and an investigation had been launched into the moments leading up to it.
The scene remained cordoned off last night.
Sainsbury’s confirmed the shop was open at the time, but could not say if any customers had been hurt.
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