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Two Filipino tourists killed, eight seriously hurt in German bus crash en route to Oktoberfest

FRANKFURT: Two Philippine nationals were killed on Sunday when a coach carrying them to the Oktoberfest beer festival in southern Germany overturned on a motorway, police said.

Two Filipino tourists killed, eight seriously hurt in German bus crash en route to Oktoberfest

Two Filipino tourists tragically lost their lives and eight others sustained serious injuries in a bus accident in Germany en route to the Oktoberfest celebration. The incident occurred early Sunday morning when the coach, chartered by a travel company, overturned on a motorway near Buchloe, close to the Austrian border. The coach, carrying a group of about 50 Filipino tourists to Munich, departed from Mailand.

Emergency services responded swiftly, deploying significant resources to the scene and closing the motorway in both directions.

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