12 killed as bus taking pilgrims to shrine in Bosnia crashes in Croatia

The scene of a fatal bus crash in Podvorec, near Zagreb, Croatia (AP)

A Poland-registered bus carrying pilgrims to a shrine in Bosnia has skidded from a motorway in northern Croatia, killing at least 12 people and injuring several others.

Croatian police said on Twitter that “in the skidding of a bus with Polish licence plates, according to initial information from the field, 11 people died and several were injured”.