Eighteen people are feared dead after a bus carrying a group of German senior citizens crashed into a truck on a highway in Bavaria early yesterday and burst into flames, police said
An aerial view shows the place of the accident. Pic/AFP
Eighteen people are feared dead after a bus carrying a group of German senior citizens crashed into a truck on a highway in Bavaria early yesterday and burst into flames, police said. Thirty people were injured in the early-morning accident, some seriously, while 18 still considered missing "are believed to have died on the burning bus," police said in a statement.
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Authorities said that forensic specialists were being brought in from Germany's federal police office to remove and identify the bodies from the charred vehicle. The accident took place around 7 am when the bus rear-ended the trailer-truck at the end of a traffic jam on the A9 highway near Muenchberg in Bavaria. The highway remained closed on both sides and police tweeted later that the road leading south would be shut for the entire day.
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