Pope, Bishops Mourn Death of Polish Pilgrims Returning From Medjugorje
- Twelve Polish pilgrims died and ten were seriously injured when their bus crashed near Mezokeresztes, Hungary, on August 16 while returning from a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.
- Hungarian police suspect the driver fell asleep causing the bus to leave the M3 motorway and crash; the driver was taken into custody and detained pending investigation.
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Pope, bishops mourn death of Polish pilgrims returning from Medjugorje
Cardinal Pietro Parolin sent condolences Aug. 18 on the pope's behalf to Polish Archbishop Adam Szal of Przemysl and Bishop Jan Franciszek Watroba of Rzeszów, who lead the dioceses to which the pilgrims belonged.
The Miskolc District Court has ordered the arrest of the driver of the Polish bus that was involved in an accident on the M3 motorway, the press department of the Miskolc Court announced. They wrote that the man's actions, if proven, constitute a misdemeanor of negligently causing a road accident resulting in a fatal mass accident, which is punishable by 2–8 years in prison. According to the court, given the severity of the penalty that can be i…
On Tuesday, a Hungarian court decided to place the Polish bus driver involved in a serious accident, a soldier with 12 deaths and a few other dozens of wounded, on the M3 motorway in eastern Hungary.
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ewtnnews.comBishops mourn Polish pilgrims killed in Hungary after Medjugorje trip
The 12 pilgrims were returning from the Marian shrine at Medjugorje when their coach left the M3 motorway in eastern Hungary in the early hours of Sunday. [...]
The district court in Miskolc ordered the driver of a Polish bus to be detained for a month. "The driver was not in a condition to drive safely; he fell asleep due to fatigue, causing the bus to veer off the road to the right, across the emergency lane, and then overturned on its side on a highway embankment," the Hungarian prosecutor's office said in an earlier statement. Accident in Hungary. The accident occurred overnight from Saturday to Sun…
Before noon, an Air Rescue Service (LPR) plane landed at Jasionka Airport near Rzeszów carrying another group of victims of a bus accident in Hungary. As Podkarpackie Voivode Teresa Kubas-Hul announced earlier on Wednesday, 12 patients are expected to return to Poland. On Monday evening, a plane carrying the first group of Poles injured in a bus accident in Hungary landed at Jasionka Airport. The article, "A plane carrying another group of pilgr…
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