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Nine killed and 43 injured as buses crash in Germany

Incident involving vehicles from Poland and Ukraine occured early this morning near Dresden

The wreckage of a coach beside the A4 motorway near Dresden-Neustadt in Germany today. Nine people were killed and 43 injured in a multiple bus crash. Photograph: Matthias Hiekel/EPA.
The wreckage of a coach beside the A4 motorway near Dresden-Neustadt in Germany today. Nine people were killed and 43 injured in a multiple bus crash. Photograph: Matthias Hiekel/EPA.
Sat Jul 19 2014 - 12:45

Nine people were killed and more than 40 injured when several buses crashed into each other on a German motorway near the eastern city of Dresden, police said today.

The crash occurred just before 2am when a Polish bus hit into the back of a Ukrainian bus. The Polish bus then broke through the central barrier and collided with a Polish minibus travelling in the other direction.

The first bus then skidded down a slope.

German policemen investigate at the site of a coach crash on the A4 motorway near Dresden-Neustadtin Germany today. At least nine people were killed and 43 injured in a multiple bus crash. Photograph: Rico Loeb/EPA.
German policemen investigate at the site of a coach crash on the A4 motorway near Dresden-Neustadtin Germany today. At least nine people were killed and 43 injured in a multiple bus crash. Photograph: Rico Loeb/EPA.

Police said six of the nine dead had been identified. They were Polish citizens. Some of the 43 people injured were severely hurt, police said.

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The A4 motorway, which links Germany with Poland via Dresden, was closed for hours in both directions.

Reuters