Many people were killed when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a truck on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday, the German government said.
“Unfortunately numerous people – a tour group from (the eastern German state of) Saxony – lost their lives in this burning bus,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert told a news conference.
Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS/News 5
A local newspaper, Frankenpost, said that 17 people had been killed, without identifying its source for the information.
Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS/News 5.
Police said on Twitter that “a number of people” had died with 31 people injured, some of them seriously.
Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS/News 5
Police said there had been 48 people on the bus at the time of the crash.
Helicopters at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany, July 3, 2017. REUTERS/News 5.
