12 die in crash

TWELVE people were killed yesterday and six were in a critical condition after a Polish coach crashed into a bridge on a wet motorway south of Berlin, emergency services said.

“The number killed is now 12, and the number of very seriously injured six,” a police spokesman told reporters.

The spokesman said that the bus hit a bridge pillar after swerving to avoid a car joining the motorway, not far from Berlin’s Schoenefeld airport.