No screaming, just a stunned silence

THERE was no yelling or screaming after the out-of-service bus ploughed into passengers and pedestrians, just an air of stunned silence punctuated by people quietly crying.

The worst thing, said an American tourist describing the scene, was seeing the bodies of the dead and the injured under the bus.

At that stage, before the first emergency services crews arrived seconds later, the five who perished in the worst accident in the history of Dublin Bus were probably already dead, crushed under the wheels of the double decker bus.