Hijacked bus smashes into LA traffic

A woman has been killed and seven people injured after a hijacked bus smashed into traffic as police chased it through Los Angeles.

A woman driver was killed and seven people injured today when a gunman hijacked a bus which smashed into oncoming traffic as it was chased by police through city streets.

During the chase in central Los Angeles in the USA the bus smashed into a van, killing the woman driver, and a parcels delivery vehicle before careering across the pavement and crashing to a halt in a car park.