10 killed, 45 injured as bus crashes off road in Croatia

Emergency crews work at the site of the bus crash near Slavonski Brod (Luka Safundzic/ SBonline/AP)

A bus swerved off a major road and crashed in Croatia early on Sunday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 45 others, some of them seriously, officials said.

The crash happened near the town of Slavonski Brod on the highway between the capital, Zagreb, and the Serbian border at around 6am local time.