- Title: German transport minister visits bus crash site, confirms 18 dead
- Date: 3rd July 2017
- Summary: A9 MOTORWAY NEAR STAMMBACH, GERMANY (JULY 3, 2017) REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FORENSIC EXPERTS WORKING ON CHARRED OUT BUS WRECK VARIOUS OF HELICOPTER CARRYING GERMAN TRANSPORT MINISTER ALEXANDER DOBRINDT AND BAVARIAN STATE INTERIOR MINISTER JOACHIM HERRMANN LANDING ON MOTORWAY WIDE OF CLOSED-OFF MOTORWAY FORENSIC EXPERTS AT BUS WRECK VARIOUS OF DOBRINDT AND HERRMANN WALKING NEAR CAMERAS POLICEMAN ON CHERRYPICKER FILMING (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN TRANSPORT MINISTER, ALEXANDER DOBRINDT, SAYING: "The heat must have been so intense that nothing inflammable is left on the bus. All that is left are steel parts so one can imagine what this must have meant for the people inside the bus.' WIDE OF BUS WRECK FORENSIC EXPERTS AT SITE (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN TRANSPORT MINISTER, ALEXANDER DOBRINDT, SAYING: "You know that I mentioned 18 people who are unaccounted for. This means that rescue services are still inside the bus trying to recover human remains of those still unaccounted for to then identify them." HEARSE DRIVING PAST COFFIN BEING LOADED INTO HEARSE
- Embargoed: 17th July 2017 15:23
- Keywords: bus crash Bavaria A9 motorway transport minister Alexander Dobrindt
- Location: A9 MOTORWAY NEAR STAMMBACH, GERMANY
- City: A9 MOTORWAY NEAR STAMMBACH, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Ground Accidents/Collisions,Disaster/Accidents
- Reuters ID: LVA0016O5XTFR
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- Story Text:The heat resulting from the fire of a crashed bus on a German motorway was so intense that only steel parts remain, the country's transport minister said on Monday (July 3).
Speaking at the site of the accident on the A9 motorway in the southern state of Bavaria, Alexander Dobrindt told reporters that 18 people had died in the fire and that rescuers were in the process of trying to recover their remains.
Thirty people were injured in the crash, which occurred shortly after 7 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) near the town of Stammbach, around 90 km (56 miles) northeast of Nuremberg, police said. Some were seriously injured. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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