Bus crash in Croatia kills 12 Polish pilgrims travelling to shrine | Croatia

Twelve Polish nationals have died and 30 others had been injured when a bus sure for Zagreb veered off a motorway in northern Croatia.

The injured had been taken to hospitals within the space and 18 had been in a critical situation, stated Maja Grba Bujević, head of Croatia’s emergency providers.

Sixteen emergency medical groups had been dispatched to the crash web site.

The Polish consulate worker Dagmara Lukovic stated the bus passengers had been Polish. The bus was registered in Poland, in keeping with the Croatian inside ministry.

The Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, stated the bus was taking pilgrims to the Catholic shrine in Medjugorje, a city in southern Bosnia.

The shrine is Europe’s third hottest pilgrimage vacation spot after Lourdes and Fatima, though the Vatican has not verified any of the reported miracles that witnesses claimed to have seen there.

“This morning, I spoke concerning the particulars of the tragedy with the Croatian prime minister, Andrej Plenković, who assured the total assist of Croatian medical providers,” Morawiecki stated on Fb.

The Croatian inside minister, Davor Božinović, stated the bus originated from “a spot close to Warsaw” and that “in keeping with some data”, it was carrying pilgrims to Medjugorje.

The accident occurred at 5.40am native time (3.40am GMT) about 50km (30 miles) north of Zagreb, on the A4 motorway, which is busy throughout the peak of the vacationer season.

Rescue groups had been despatched to the placement of the accident and an investigation was opened into what brought on the accident, Croatian media reported.

Croatia has attracted thousands and thousands of vacationers this summer season, with about 580,000 Polish vacationers visiting between January and July.

In July final 12 months, 10 vacationers from Kosovo died in a bus crash on a freeway in japanese Croatia.