24 Pilgrims Die in Bus Crash in France
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"During this ordeal, you have the solidarity of the French people"  A bus carrying Polish pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep mountain road, crashed into a river bed and burst into flames Sunday, killing 24 people, authorities said.Another 20 people were seriously injured in the wreck, which occurred at about 9:30 a.m. near the village of Vizille, not far from Grenoble, officials said.Firefighters said the bus had 51 people on board, including the driver, and plowed through a barrier before it plunged about 65 feet onto the banks of the La Romanche River, firefighters said. Read more
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NOTRE-DAME-DE-MESAGE, France  - At least 26 Polish pilgrims died on Sunday when their coach crashed off a mountain road at a notorious accident blackspot in the French Alps and burst into flames, police and officials said.
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Britons killed in Jordan bus crash Kate O&#39;Hara, Olwen Dudgeon, James Reed and Julie Hemmings AT LEAST nine Britons on a pilgrimage tour led by a Yorkshire churchman were killed yesterday when their coach careered off a desert highway in Jordan and
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At least 20 Polish pilgrims die in a coach crash near the south-eastern city of Grenoble in the French Alps.
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NOTRE-DAME-DE-MESAGE, France  - Twenty-six Polish pilgrims died on Sunday when their coach crashed off a mountain road at a notorious accident blackspot in the French Alps and burst into flames, police and officials said.
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