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| Fatal bus fire on German motorway | |
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| Up to 20 people have been killed in a fire on a bus on a motorway near the German city of Hanover, police say. | |
| The bus was reported to have been travelling to Berlin when the fire broke out, trapping some passengers. | The bus was reported to have been travelling to Berlin when the fire broke out, trapping some passengers. |
| But 10 people were able to escape from the vehicle after the fire started, on the A2 Autobahn. | |
| A spokesman for Lower Saxony's interior ministry told the Associated Press that it was not yet known what had caused the fire. | A spokesman for Lower Saxony's interior ministry told the Associated Press that it was not yet known what had caused the fire. |
| Reports say the bus had pulled into the hard shoulder after catching fire. | |
| "What I saw was just horrible," one eyewitness told Reuters. | |
| A fire department spokesman, Joerg Segreff, told AP that 12 people had been injured, three of them with serious burns. |