Bolzano – A car drove into a tour group in South Tyrol and fatally injured six people. One assumes that the victims come from Germany, a police spokesman from Bozen told the German press agency.
The car drove into the group near Bruneck at around 1 a.m. The police are investigating how the accident happened. The victims still have to be identified. Where in Germany they came from is still unclear.
▶ ︎ According to initial information, the accident driver was probably drunk. The 28-year-old local had a very high alcohol content in the blood, the Italian news agency Ansa reported on Sunday morning. The man from Kiens was in the hospital for further examinations.
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The rescuers set up a tent to better care for the peoplePhoto: Luttach fire brigade
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Rescue workers discuss in order to be able to provide coordinated helpPhoto: Luttach fire brigade
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The broadcaster Rai Südtirol reported that the vehicle had raced into a group of 17 people in Luttach in the Ahrntal. Eleven people were injured, the South Tyrolean Fire Brigade Association reports in a Facebook post, some of them seriously. The six people died at the scene of the accident. According to the report, 160 emergency services were deployed.
▶ ︎ According to Italian media reports, the victims of the serious traffic accident in South Tyrol are young people. The group of young people from Germany had been standing at a coach in Lutago after an evening in a restaurant when the car had crashed into the group, the Ansa news agency reported. Six people died immediately on Sunday night, three were seriously injured. A woman was flown with a helicopter to a hospital in Innsbruck in Austria.
The area is located in Italy on the Austrian border and is known as a skiing and winter sports area. Just last weekend, three Germans were killed in an avalanche accident in South Tyrol.
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