Bus carrying Polish pilgrims crashes in Hungary, leaving 12 dead

Another 10 people in serious condition after bus veers off motorway and overturns Twelve people have died after a bus carrying a group of Polish tourists overturned on the M3 motorway in Hungary on the way back from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Local police said the bus crashed near the town of Mezőkeresztes after it “went off the straight road into a ditch and overturned” at 1am local time. Early reports suggested the driver had probably fallen asleep. He survived the crash and was taken into custody. The bus was carrying a group of pilgrims from Poland’s south-eastern Podkarpackie region who were returning from a pilgrimage to the Catholic shrine in Međugorje, in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, with 57 passengers and two drivers onboard. Poland’s foreign ministry said “virtually all” passengers were transferred to local hospitals in Eger, Debrecen and Miskolc, and 10 people were in a serious condition. The Hungarian ambulance service said 37 people sustained minor injuries. Polish and Hungarian leaders expressed their condolences after the crash. Poland’s president, Karol Nawrocki, said: “With deep sorrow, I received the tragic news of the accident involving a Polish bus in Hungary,