Crash kills 11 on church outing

Eutin - Eleven people, many of them mentally handicapped, died in a road crash in Germany yesterday when a Swedish truck smashed…

Eutin - Eleven people, many of them mentally handicapped, died in a road crash in Germany yesterday when a Swedish truck smashed head-on into a convoy of church minibuses taking them on a day trip. Police in the northern town of Eutin, between Hamburg and the Danish border, said at least four others were seriously injured.

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