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20 injured after bus with school children crashes near Paderborn

Several passengers suffered injuries on Tuesday after a bus carrying school pupils crashed into a tree in Paderborn.

Published: 2 April 2019 11:47 CEST
20 injured after bus with school children crashes near Paderborn
The bus was destroyed in the crash. Photo: Polizei Paderborn/DPA
A total of 28 passengers, aged from 12 to 52 and many of them local school children, were on board the bus which was travelling in the area of Grundsteinheim-Lichtenau, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, at the time of the collision.
 
Police said 20 people were injured, two of them seriously. The driver, 43, was not injured in the crash, which happened at around 7am.
 
The crash caused huge damage to the vehicle, as the picture shows. 
 
A large-scale rescue operation took place for several hours after the incident. Helicopters were deployed to the scene of the crash. A nearby fire station was set up as a meeting point for relatives of those injured.
 
Initial investigations show the bus left the road at about 7am and crashed into a tree shortly before entering Grundsteinheim. 
 
It is still unclear how and why the driver lost control of the bus. The investigation is continuing.

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WEATHER

IN PICTURES: French town hit by freak June hailstorm

A French town has been hit by a freak hailstorm that left locals clearing drifts of ice in the streets with shovels and snow ploughs.

Published: 29 June 2021 16:44 CEST
IN PICTURES: French town hit by freak June hailstorm
Photo: Sapeurs-pompiers des Vosges

The hail struck the town of Plombières-les-Bains in the Vosges mountains on Tuesday morning.

Romain Munier, head of communications for the local emergency services, told French media: “There were up to 60 centimetres of accumulated hail” while in the wider area, “up to 10 millimetres of water accumulated in six minutes”.

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Locals were pictured clearing the street of ice with shovels and snow ploughs after the storm passed and the fire and rescue crews for the Vosges area said they had received 56 callouts in total.

Large areas of France are on weather alert for storms until Thursday, as a ‘cold drop’ passes over the country leading to extremely unsettled weather.

In most areas, however, the storms will be confined to heavy rain and thunder.

In neighbouring Switzerland, the Swiss news agency ATS reported giant hailstones up to seven centimetres wide in the canton of Lucerne.

In the canton of Fribourg, the police and fire brigade were called 300 times, including to rescue a class of 16 children and two adults caught in the hail.

Six of the children and one adult were taken to hospital.

At least five people were injured in the German-speaking Swiss cantons, including a cyclist who suffered head injuries from hailstones, according to ATS, whilst in Germany severe flooding has hit parts of the country including Stuttgart.

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