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| Multiple deaths, over 30 injured as bus bursts into flames after crash in Bavaria, Germany | |
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| Numerous people were killed and 31 were severely injured after a tourist bus caught fire following collision with a semi-trailer on a Bavarian highway, a German government spokesman said. | |
| The bus, carrying 46 passengers and two drivers, caught fire after ramming into a semi-trailer in heavy traffic on the A9 highway near the Bavarian town of Muenchberg, local police said in a statement on Monday. | The bus, carrying 46 passengers and two drivers, caught fire after ramming into a semi-trailer in heavy traffic on the A9 highway near the Bavarian town of Muenchberg, local police said in a statement on Monday. |
| “Unfortunately numerous people – a tour group from [the eastern German state of] Saxony – lost their lives in this burning bus,” Steffen Seibert, a government spokesperson, told a news conference later on Monday, as cited by Reuters. | |
| “We cannot rule out the possibility that the 17 [passengers] did not manage to get out of the bus,” police spokeswoman Anne Hoefer told N-TV news outlet. | “We cannot rule out the possibility that the 17 [passengers] did not manage to get out of the bus,” police spokeswoman Anne Hoefer told N-TV news outlet. |
| “Also, we have to acknowledge that there may be dead,” Hoefer added, as sited by Sueddeutsche Zeitung. She said many of the rescued were in shock. | “Also, we have to acknowledge that there may be dead,” Hoefer added, as sited by Sueddeutsche Zeitung. She said many of the rescued were in shock. |
| The bus itself has burnt out completely, leaving nothing but the steel frame, Hoefer said. | The bus itself has burnt out completely, leaving nothing but the steel frame, Hoefer said. |
| Police have closed the A9 highway in both directions, dispatching helicopters and ambulances to evacuate the injured. | Police have closed the A9 highway in both directions, dispatching helicopters and ambulances to evacuate the injured. |
| The passengers were mostly pensioners from East Germany, the newspaper said. | The passengers were mostly pensioners from East Germany, the newspaper said. |
| The accident happened not far from an A9 section where 10 people died in a heavy road collision in 1990, N-TV said. | The accident happened not far from an A9 section where 10 people died in a heavy road collision in 1990, N-TV said. |
| Similar incidents involving large vehicles have occurred in Germany over recent years. In 2014, two coaches and a minibus collided on the A4 highway outside the eastern city of Dresden, killing nine people. | Similar incidents involving large vehicles have occurred in Germany over recent years. In 2014, two coaches and a minibus collided on the A4 highway outside the eastern city of Dresden, killing nine people. |
| Local police later said a Polish bus ran into the rear of a Ukrainian bus, causing it to skid across the carriageway into the path of another Polish minibus traveling in the opposite direction, according to Deutsche Welle. | Local police later said a Polish bus ran into the rear of a Ukrainian bus, causing it to skid across the carriageway into the path of another Polish minibus traveling in the opposite direction, according to Deutsche Welle. |