Authorities say a Polish bus carrying religious pilgrims veered off the road and crashed in Varazdin in northwestern Croatia early on Saturday morning, killing 12 people and injuring 31, including 18 critically.
Zagreb’s capital city is about an hour’s drive away from Breznicki Hum, where a car accident occurred at 5:40am on Sunday morning.
“Maja Grba-Bujevi, the head of the Croatian Emergency Medicare Institute, said, “We have 43 injured persons, of which 12 have died….”
“We can confirm that all the victims are Polish citizens,” a representative for the Polish Foreign Ministry told private station TVN24.The driver said that the bus was located in Warsaw. Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said the passengers were adult pilgrims who were headed to Medjugorje, a Roman Catholic site in southern Bosnia.
” The accident’s cause was being investigated.Prosecutors in Warsaw are now investigating the reason for the plane accident in Poland’s capital, Warsaw.”
Another individual died in the hospital after first being reported to have been killed in the attack, Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said.
Mr Bozinovic told reporters that “several of the injured passengers are struggling for their life.”
But this has yet to be proven, according to the Polish Foreign Ministry’s statement.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković extended his sympathies to the families of the victims, saying in a statement on Twitter that emergency personnel were doing all they could to help.
Two Polish ministers are headed to Croatia in the wake of the event, local media reported.
