At least 42 dead when bus and truck collide in French wine country

PARIS — At least 42 people, mostly elderly tourists starting off on a day trip, were killed Friday when a bus and truck collided on a country road in wine country in southwest France, officials said.

The cause and circumstances of the crash — near the village of Puisseguin, about 50 kilometers east of Bordeaux — were unclear. Scores of emergency workers rushed to the scene.

The death toll may have been so unusually high because the bus caught fire, an official with the national gendarme service said. The official was not authorized to be publicly named.

French President Francois Hollande, on a visit to Greece, said the government was “totally mobilized” to help after what he called a “terrible accident.” …

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At least 42 dead when bus and truck collide in French wine country