BERLIN (AP) – Police say they fear a number of people may have died when a bus went up in flames after it crashed into a truck Monday morning in southern Germany, injuring 31 people and leaving 17 others unaccounted for.
“We’re afraid that people may have died in the accident,” police spokeswoman Irene Brandenstein told The Associated Press.
She said several people were severely injured in the crash near Muenchberg in Bavaria.
Local Oberfranken police tweeted that the travel group came from Saxony in eastern Germany and that a phone number had been activated to provide family members with information.
Two drivers and 46 people and were on the bus, Brandenstein said.