PARIS (Reuters) - Six Moroccan tourists died and seven were severely injured when the bus they were travelling in crashed on Friday into the support pillar of a highway overpass in central France, a police official said.
The crash took place at around 1 a.m. GMT (2 a.m. Britishtime) a few kilometers from Blois, the official said. Nineteenother passengers were slightly injured.
"For reasons unknown, the bus crashed into a bridge pillardividing the highway," the official said.
The injured were evacuated to hospitals in Blois andOrleans, the official said. Almost 200 police and rescueworkers were mobilised in the rescue effort.
(Reporting by Henri-Pierre Andre; Writing by Brian Rohan;Editing by Catherine Evans)
