Teen pilgrims killed in bus crash on way to shrine
A bus carrying high school students on an annual pilgrimage to Poland’s most sacred Catholic shrine collided with a truck and burst into flames today, killing 12 people.
The bus was carrying students in their final year of high school from the north-eastern city of Bialystok to Czestochowa in southern Poland, the home of the renowned Jasna Gora shrine, said Zlotka Korzeniewska, the school principal.
