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Three killed in Bosnia bus crash, over 50 injured
24 May 2008 09:31:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
SARAJEVO, May 24 (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 53 injured when a bus carrying Roman Catholic pilgrims from Croatia collided with a truck in northern Bosnia late on Friday, local media reported.

Two passengers immediately died in the accident that took place some time after midnight, Fena news agency reported. The truck driver died in a hospital in the northern town of Doboj, where 19 passengers were kept for further treatment.

Fena said the passengers were Croatian pilgrims heading for the Roman Catholic shrine of Medjugorje in the country's southern Herzegovina region.

This is the second accident involving pilgrims to Medjugorje over the past year. A bus with 50 American pilgrims crashed last year in central Bosnia. No one died in that accident. (Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic)


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