BUDAPEST, Hungary – A tourist bus collided with a truck in southern Hungary early Thursday, police said. The truck driver and six bus passengers were killed, and 16 others were injured.

The bus was in a head-on collision with a German-registered car transporter, then crashed through a fence, said Marta Toronykoy, a police spokeswoman for the southern county of Csongrad.

Toronykoy said the bus was Czech and was carrying 32 Romanians and two Bulgarian drivers. A Hungarian television reporter at the scene said the passengers were Romanian guest workers.

Toronykoy said the truck driver and six bus passengers died immediately. Of the 16 people injured, three of them were in serious or life-threatening condition.

A service of the Associated Press(AP)