Eleven killed in Poland schoolbus crash

Eleven people have died in Poland after a bus carrying schoolchildren collided with a truck in the east of the country this morning…

Eleven people have died in Poland after a bus carrying schoolchildren collided with a truck in the east of the country this morning.

The bus was on the way to a pilgrimage at Czestochowa sanctuary and collided head-on with a truck, spinning across the road and catching fire, said a spokesman for the fire brigade in the eastern city of Bialystok.

"The bus was completely burned and people were running away in flames. So far we have 11 dead and several dozen injured," he said.

He said there were nearly 60 people on the bus, most of them students. The injured were taken to hospitals in Bialystok and nearby towns.

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The cause of the accident is not yet known.