2 Filipino tourists killed, 8 seriously injured in German bus crash

Two Filipino tourists were killed and eight others seriously injured when a coach carrying them to the Oktoberfest festival in Munich overturned on a German motorway early Sunday, according to police reports. The accident occurred around 0400 GMT near Buchloe, in a region close to the Austrian border, after the vehicle left the road and overturned.

The coach, chartered by a travel company, was carrying around 50 Filipino tourists from the town of Mailand. Emergency resources were deployed at the scene, and the motorway was closed in both directions for significant emergency response.

Brief written by urgent.news from Gulf News's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.