At least five die in Polish tourist bus crash in Serbia (1st Lead)

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Jul 11, 2008, 8:38 GMT

Belgrade - Five people, including a child, were killed and many more injured, some of them critically, when a bus with Polish tourists overturned on a highway near Belgrade Friday morning, Serbian police said. The double-decker bus carried 68 passengers, police said. It crashed at 7 am (0500 GMT) at Indjija, halfway between Belgrade and Novi Sad, 80 kilometres to the nort-west. TA clinic in Novi Sad received 30 injured tourists, seven of whom were listed in critical condition - two of the victims were being reanimated and four were in emergency surgery, doctors said. Many of the injured were children in their late teens, the private news agency Beta said. Five paramedic teams were rushed to the scene of the accident from Belgrade and several others from Novi Sad and the nearby towns Indjija and Ruma, reports said. Police said it was still investigating the accident.

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