BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Nine people were killed and 25 were injured in two bus crashes involving Slovak citizens in Slovakia and Romania, media reported Monday.
Six people were killed and 25 hurt when a bus carrying about 40 passengers of a Slovak folk dancing group skidded off a main road and plunged down a 165-foot slope in central Slovakia about 60 miles east of Bratislava Sunday, the Serbian news agency Tanjug said Monday.
Slovak police were investigating the accident and preliminary reports suggested the bus had a brakes problem.
Another bus, with Polish registration plates, carrying 25 Slovak tourists to Bulgaria overturned on a road in southern Romania, killing three people Monday, the Serbian news agency Beta said.
The bus swerved off the road and overturned several times near the town of Giurgiu on the Danube River south of Bucharest. Further details of the crash were unavailable.
