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Two Britons killed in bus crash

The second coach is thought to have crashed into the wreckage
Two Britons have died in a motorway crash involving a lorry and two coaches carrying British schoolchildren near Cologne in Germany.
Stuart Dines, 14, of Woodbridge, from Thomas Mills High School, Framlingham, Suffolk, was killed on one coach.

The assistant driver on the other bus, carrying pupils from Norwich School in Norfolk, also died. The two groups were on separate Austrian ski trips.

The Foreign Office has set up an emergency helpline on 0207 008 0000.

It is believed one of the coaches had broken down and a passing lorry collided with it, and the second crashed into the wreckage of that accident, near the town of Kerpen at 0700GMT.

Some 55 students, aged 11 to 16 from the Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham, six staff and two ski instructors were travelling to Austria. The second coach carried children from the independent boys' school, Norwich School, on a trip run by Ambassador Travel.

The Foreign Office spokesman said about 15 of the 29 people who had needed medical treatment remained in hospital.

Four were said to have serious injuries, one of whom German police described as being in a life threatening condition.


The accident has left the motorway closed

A further 77 people were being cared for in a local school. Most of the survivors were expected to return to the UK later on Saturday."

Norwich School headmaster Jim Hawkins told BBC News 24 he believed one member of staff had been injured.

He said parents of pupils had been contacted and said the party would be heading back to Dover on Saturday.

Diane Turner, whose son Jason is on the trip, told BBC News that Suffolk County Council had contacted her to say he was "safe and well".

"They gave us an emergency number to contact, but the area education officer said they would be in contact again," she added.

"They are hoping to get the children home today, but it is possibly going to be tomorrow."


Emergency services were at the scene to help the injured

Andreas Moh, press officer for Cologne Police, said the children involved in the crash were "distressed" and "traumatised" and had been taken to makeshift first-aid centres at a school and fire station in Kerpen.

He said: "The children have been traumatised and distressed. They are heading back to Britain today."

Mike Pleasants, assistant operations manager for Ambassador Travel, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, confirmed one of the coaches involved in the crash was owned by the firm.

The BBC's correspondent in Berlin, Tristana Moore, said: "One bus had broken down and the driver had pulled over onto the hard shoulder of the motorway but the vehicle was sticking out."


A lorry is thought to have collided with the first coach

A passing lorry collided with it and the second coach then struck the two other vehicles.

The Foreign Office spokesman said a consular team from Dusseldorf, led by Britain's consul-general, was already at the scene.

A "rapid deployment team" of 10 specialists trained in dealing with trauma and disasters were flying to Germany "on the first possible plane" from London, he added.

Posted By: DDiM, Feb 11, 13:45:50