28 Tourists Killed in French Bus Crash

World | May 17, 2003, Saturday // 00:00

At least 28 people have been killed and 40 injured when a coach carrying German tourists crashed on the A6 motorway in the northern suburbs of the city of Lyon, south-east French. The coach was heading south to Spain, to take the passengers on a holiday they had won in a lottery. About 20 passengers and one of the two drivers, a Russian, were still trapped inside the coach, some two hours after the crash, according to rescuers trying to cut them free of the wreckage. About 60 of the 78 passengers had been asleep and some were thrown from the coach and crushed to death when it overturned.

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