12 killed, many injured in bus accident in Croatia

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12 killed, many injured in bus accident in Croatia

In the early hours of Saturday, twelve people were killed and many injured in an accident of a Polish bus north of the Croatian capital, Zagreb.

The bus slipped off the road on the A 4 motorway and landed in a ditch.

The Polish foreign ministry says all the casualties are Polish citizens.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed earlier today that 11 dead and 34 injured as well as 11 dead. He also said he had sent health and deputy foreign ministers, Adam Niedzielski and Marcin Przydacz, to the site of the accident.

According to Morawiecki, the bus carried pilgrims to the Catholic pilgrimage site Medjugorje in southwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Polish health ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina later confirmed that the 12th person had died in the hospital.

We have more deaths - the twelfth person. The victim died in hospital, Jasina told Polish TV channel TVN 24.

The Croatian newspaper Vecernij List reported on its website that five injured tourists were in a serious condition.

According to the Croatian fire service, the injured people were transported to hospitals in Varazdin and Zagreb.

Croatian public television HRT said that the driver was most likely to have fallen asleep.