One dead, 24 hurt after bus with Polish tourists crashes in Hungary

One person was killed and 24 others were hospitalized with injuries after a bus carrying Polish tourists crashed in Hungary, Poland’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Emergency workers on the scene of the accident near the city of Kiskunfélegyháza, southern Hungary, on Sunday, August 9, 2020.

Photo: EPA/Ferenc Donka

Three of the injured, including a five-year-old child, were in a serious condition, according to the foreign ministry in Warsaw.

The accident, near the city of Kiskunfélegyháza in the south of Hungary, occurred at around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday.

The cause was not immediately known, the Polish foreign ministry said.

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The Poles had been traveling back home from a vacation in Bulgaria, Poland’s state news agency PAP reported.

Photo: EPA/Ferenc Donka

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Source: PAP