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Bus overturn on icy highway in Hungary kills 3

Xinhua, December 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three people were killed and 31 injured when a bus overturned on the ice-crusted M3 motorway near northeastern city of Miskolc, about 133 km from Budapest, the Hungarian Police reported on its official website on Sunday.

Among the injured, 11 were in serious conditions, according to the police.

The accident happened just before midnight Saturday, when the bus with 81 people onboard returned from a visit to a Christmas fair in Vienna, Austria.

But the accident was later exacerbated when nine passenger cars and two vans, with Hungarian, Romanian, and Ukrainian license plates involved, skidded into the overturned bus.

The M3 motorway, part of the E71 European corridor, was iced over because of freezing rain, and was shut down for several hours following the accident.

This was one of several multi-car accidents triggered by the icy conditions. Enditem