Paralympics party cancelled as seven killed in bus crash

THE party for the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Athens was cancelled yesterday after a bus taking Greek high school students to watch the games smashed into a truck loaded with glass, killing seven teenagers.

Thirty other passengers were injured, three critically, in the collision near the seaside town of Aghios Constantinos, 108 miles north of Athens.

Paralympic organisers said they would cut back tomorrow’s closing ceremony of the games, while Greek President Costis Stephanopoulos expressed his “deepest regret over this appalling accident”.