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48 injured, mostly children, in German school bus accident

Police in Mannheim said the injured were 43 children and the bus driver, as well as other adults who were on board the bus.

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A bus has crashed into a building in Eberbach near Mannheim (AP)

A bus carrying children to school in southern Germany hit multiple cars and then crashed into the side of a building, injuring 48 people, 10 of them seriously, police said.

The injured were 43 children and the bus driver, as well as other adults who were on board the bus, said Mannheim police spokesman Christoph Kunkel.

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Firefighters at the scene of the crash in Eberbach, near Mannheim, southern Germany (Rene Priebe/dpa via AP)

The bus crashed just after 7am on Tuesday as it was driving around a left-hand bend in the road in Eberbach.

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The bus hit multiple cars (Rene Priebe/dpa via AP)

A wide area around the accident scene was closed to traffic as the incident was investigated.

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