Bus crash in France kills six Moroccan tourists

Paris: Six Moroccan tourists died when the bus they were travelling in crashed on Friday into the support pillar of a highway overpass in central France, police said.

Twenty-six people were injured, seven of them severely, in the crash that took place near Blois.

Almost 200 police and rescue workers were mobilised to evacuated the injured to hospitals.

Police are still investigating what caused the crash.