BUDAPEST: A dozen people were killed and at least 10 seriously injured after a Polish bus carrying 57 pilgrims veered off a motorway in eastern Hungary, in an accident that a survivor described as “unimaginable”.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday in a Facebook post that the bus had run into a ditch and tipped over, at around 1 am.
The bus, which also had two drivers on board, was returning to Poland from a shrine to the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje in southeastern Bosnia.
The injured were taken to hospitals in four nearby cities.
Crash survivor Helena Tluczek, from Lubenia, told Reuters from her hospital bed that she was on the phone with a friend back in Poland when the bus suddenly tipped over, and rolled. She suffered broken ribs and injuries to her shoulder and spine, and also hit her head, but remembered some of what had happened.
“All the seats were ripped out. People were under the seats; everyone was screaming for help,” she said. She pulled two people out from under the wreckage and
then “clawed my way out of that vehicle with my hands”.
