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Road reportedly icy when bus heading to ski resort ended up in ditch
The Associated Press
Posted: Apr 02, 2017 8:13 AM ET
Last Updated: Apr 02, 2017 8:13 AM ET
Rescue officials say a bus carrying Swedish students to a ski resort crashed Sunday in central Sweden, killing three people and injuring 19 others — six of them seriously.
Rescue services spokesman Peter Nystedt said 31 others sustained minor injuries. The 52 high school students were en route to a ski resort with seven adults, including the driver, when the accident occurred on a main highway south of Sveg, a small town 430 kilometres northwest of Stockholm.
The cause of the accident was not immediately known but the road reportedly was icy when the accident occurred about 7 a.m. local time. Pictures showed the bus lying on its side in a ditch beside the highway.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said the accident “leaves me and the whole country in sorrow.”
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