At least 20 injured as school bus crashes into residential building
A bus carrying dozens of school children at about at 7.20am on Friday crashed into a house in northern Germany, with at least 20 people injured in the horror smash.
The bus ploughed into a residential building in the town of Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-Holstein, with several passengers trapped inside the vehicle.
Due to the scale of the accident, emergency services have declared a “mass casualty incident”.
Currently, rescue workers classify four people as seriously injured.
The passengers were primarily children, however it is reported that some adults were also on board the bus and injured in the impact.
The bus is said to have ‘sideswiped’ a car before driving over a roundabout then smashing through the wall of a house into a living room.
Debris can be seen strewn across the area.
A police spokesperson said that a structural engineer is on site to inspect the damaged building.
A support centre for relatives has also been set up.
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