Seven people killed and 24 injured after truck collides with workers' bus

Seven people were killed and 24 injured yesterday morning when a truck laden with beer bottles plowed into a bus carrying workers to the Elektrownia Belchatow power plant. The accident occurred at a road junction near Kamienskie in Lodz Voivodship, 130 kilometers southwest of Warsaw. According to police spokesman Robert Chrzastek, the truck hit the bus in the middle of one of its sides, nearly cutting it in two. He added that one of the drivers had been attempting to cross the junction on a red light. Thirteen of the injured remain in hospital in Belchatow. Three of them, including the truck driver, are in critical condition. (Rzeczpospolita, p. 5; Reuters) A.Z.