Six people were killed and around 40 injured in the crash of a Ukrainian coach on a highway in Poland overnight from Friday to Saturday, rescue workers said.
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The accident occurred around midnight on the A4 motorway near Jaroslaw, near the Polish-Ukrainian border.
The bus struck, for reasons as yet unknown, the safety gates before falling into the ditch and lying on its side, police said.
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The accident toll is six dead
" and around forty injured among the 57 passengers and drivers of this double-decker bus, Marcin Betleja, spokesperson for the Rzeszow firefighters, told TVN24 television channel.
Eight of the injured were in serious condition, medical services said.
Doctors pointed out that many of the passengers, all Ukrainians, had not buckled their seat belts for the trip.
According to media reports, it is a regular bus between Poznan (western Poland) and Kherson, southern Ukraine.