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UPDATE: One dead, over dozen injured after Warsaw city bus falls off overpass

25.06.2020 14:14
One person died and over a dozen were injured after a city bus fell off an overpass in Warsaw on Thursday, Polish media reported.
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Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak

Six people were taken to hospitals with serious injuries, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.

Ten emergency medical teams and a rescue helicopter were deployed to the scene of the accident on the Polish capital’s northern Grota-Roweckiego Bridge.

State news agency PAP reported that the front of the articulated bus plunged down on the carriageway below, while the rear end remained stuck on the overpass.

Forty people were aboard at the time of the accident, according to province governor Konstatny Radziwiłł, who was at the scene.

(pk/gs)

Source: IAR/PAP

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