A fully-loaded passenger bus has veered off a highway and crashed in Croatia, killing ten people and injuring at least forty-five others.
The accident occurred at about 6:00am on Sunday near the town of Slavonski Brod on the highway between the capital, Zagreb, and the Serbian border, local police said.
On-the-scene footages showed the vehicle on its side in the grass near the edge of the road.
Firefighters and rescuers could be seen around the bus while traffic on the highway was halted.
The bus had Kosovo licence plates and was on a regular route from Germany to the Kosovo capital of Pristina, located south of Serbia, police said.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known.
But local police chief Franjo Galic said the bus was full, with more than sixty people on board, adding that the crash was one of the worst accidents he had ever seen.
The injured, eight of whom are seriously affected, have all been transferred to the hospital in Slavonski Brod.
It was not immedidately clear whether there were any children on the bus.
In a tweet on Sunday, in which he conveyed his “sadness and grief”, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic extended his condolences to the relatives of the people who died in the crash and the people of Kosovo.