At least 42 killed in French bus crash

October 23, 2015 15:22

Forty-two mostly elderly people died when a bus and a truck collided head-on and caught fire near Bordeaux early on Friday, officials said, in France's worst road crash in decades.

Another five people were injured in the collision on a country road near Puisseguin in the Gironde region about 60km east of Bordeaux.

A spokesman for the interior ministry said that, as far as he could tell, all the passengers were French and from the region.President Francois Hollande, speaking on a visit to Athens, said he had been "plunged into sadness by the tragedy".

-- Reuters.

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