German bus blaze kills 20: police

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Source: AFP

Twenty people were killed late Tuesday after a bus believed to be carrying pensioners burst into flames on a German motorway in the country's worst such accident in 16 years, police said.

Only around 10 of the around 30 passengers on the coach were able to escape after the blaze broke out near the northern city of Hanover, a spokesman for the German motorway police said.

A spokeswoman for Hanover police said that 12 people had been injured and that the fire had started in the interior of the coach.

Television channel N24 cited a witness as saying that the passengers were mostly elderly and that several walking frames had been recovered from the vehicle, the interior of which was entirely burnt out.

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[JVS]

1. How strange.