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| Three Britons killed in Iceland crash | Three Britons killed in Iceland crash |
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| Three British tourists, including a child, have died after their vehicle crashed while crossing a bridge in Iceland. | Three British tourists, including a child, have died after their vehicle crashed while crossing a bridge in Iceland. |
| The vehicle - a 4x4 - was carrying seven British people when the accident happened at around 9:30 GMT on Thursday, Icelandic Police said. | |
| The other passengers in the car have been critically injured. | |
| The Toyota Land Cruiser crashed through a railing on a one-lane bridge on the ring road in southern Iceland. | |
| It then fell around eight metres onto a river bank. | |
| According to local media, the crash happened on the bridge Núpsvötn between the town of Kirkjubæjarklaustur and area of Skaftafell, which is part of the Vatnajökull National Park beauty spot. | |
| The four people injured have been taken to hospital with serious injuries, police said. Two of the injured are children. | |
| Sveinn Kristjan Runarsson, Chief Superintendent of south Iceland Police said of the injured: "We haven't been able to talk to them about what happened". | |
| One of the first people on the scene was tour guide Adolf Erlingsson, who told the Associated Press: "It was horrible. | |
| "The car seemed to have hit the ground many metres from where it stopped. We struggled getting everyone out." |