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Two dead, 16 injured in bus crash in southeastern France

Two people, one of them a minor, were killed and 16 others injured in a bus accident in eastern France on Friday morning.

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Two people, including a minor, were killed and 16 others injured, three of them critically, when a regional bus crashed in the town of Lent, south of Bourg-en-Bresse in eastern France, on Friday morning, according to an initial toll released by the public prosecutor’s office.

The accident occurred at around 7:30 a.m. local time on the D22 regional road at the entrance to the town, when the bus veered off the road and struck a tree in a roadside ditch.