Twelve killed as Polish bus veers off Hungarian motorwayDozens more are seriously injured after the tourist bus overturned in the early hours of Sunday morning.57 mins agoEurope

Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured when a Polish tourist bus veered off a Hungarian motorway and into a ditch.

Police said the bus overturned after coming off the M3 motorway, which connects Hungary’s capital Budapest with the north-eastern city of Nyíregyháza, at around 01:00 local time on Sunday (23:00 GMT on Saturday).

Officers believe the driver fell asleep at the wheel. He has been taken into custody.

Thirty-five out of the 57 passengers and two drivers onboard have been rescued by firefighters so far, state media reports.

Hungary’s ambulance service said it had treated one person with life-threatening injuries, nine people with serious injuries and a further 37 people with minor injuries.

The country’s Prime Minister Péter Magyar offered his “sincere condolences” to the families of the victims and wished those injured a speedy recovery.