Five killed in Austrian bus accident confirmed as British

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LONDON (AFP) — Five people killed in Austria when a tourist bus careered off a road and into a ditch were British, Austrian emergency authorities said.

Three others among the 42 injured in the crash were in a very serious condition, the head of Salzburg Emergency Services told BBC radio.

"Five people died and all five people are British. Three other people are in hospital in a very bad situation," Gerhard Huber said.

The accident happened at 4:30 pm (1430 GMT) on Tuesday when the bus was overtaken by another vehicle and veered off the road into a ditch before somersaulting, according to earlier radio reports in Austria.

Several passengers were flung through the bus windows as it travelled 20 metres (yards) down into a ditch along the road, the radio...