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| The bus where 12 Poles lost their lives near the town of Varazdin |
Twelve people were killed and 31 injured, 18 of them seriously injured, when a bus from Poland carrying pilgrims veered off the road near the town of Varazdin in northwestern Croatia.
Police said their units, firefighters, and medical teams went to the scene of the accident, which happened at 5:40 a.m. local time, near Breznicki Hum in the direction of the Croatian capital.
Maja Grba-Bujevic, director of the Croatian Institute of Emergency Medicine, confirmed that 12 people lost their lives.
"All the victims are Polish citizens..." a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry told private Polish broadcaster TVN24. "The bus has Warsaw license plates," he said.
The travelers were pilgrims traveling to Medjugorje, a Roman Catholic shrine in southern Bosnia, Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic told reporters.