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By: Moritz Bletzinger
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After the Flixbus accident, three passengers were suddenly missing. The fire department searched the A9 with a thermal imaging camera and found nothing. Did the missing people never get in?
Leipzig – With 55 people on board, the Flixbus started its journey from Berlin to Zurich on Wednesday. 53 passengers had checked in, plus the two drivers. Then the coach crashed shortly before the Schkeuditzer Kreuz near Leipzig. And after the accident on the A9, the rescue workers only counted 52 people (including the deceased).
Large-scale operation on the A9 near Leipzig: Police secure the scene of the accident where a Flixbus had an accident. © Jan Woitas/picture alliance/dpa
After Flixbus accident on the A9: “Three passengers cannot be found” – fire department searches with thermal imaging camera
What happened? The Wiedemar municipal fire brigade describes the operation in detail on Facebook: “During the course of the emergency service, identification of the bus driver and the removal of the injured by the DRK district emergency service and helicopter (four), it was determined that three passengers could not be found.” One was then immediately found Search operations have been initiated for the people who are believed to have been injured.
“The operations management decided to send several search teams with thermal imaging cameras into the adjacent areas (forest and vegetation areas) to view the missing people. “A helicopter was also used for further searches, as was the drone from the district of North Saxony,” the fire department continued.
Missing Flixbus guests never got on the bus? One person was counted twice
Big question marks at the scene of the accident. “Until the end it could not be clarified whether the missing people had even gotten on the bus,” explains the fire department. On Thursday the police were able to correct the number of missing people to at least two. “Flixbus has now admitted to the police that a passenger on the list was recorded twice,” said a spokeswoman for
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. For the two remaining people, the question of their whereabouts remains open, as does the question of the cause of the accident on the A9.
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