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BELGRADE, Serbia: A bus carrying Polish tourists overturned north of Belgrade on Friday, killing six people and injuring nearly 40, Serbian police said. Police said 68 people were on the bus when the accident happened at about 6.30 a.m. (0430GMT) on the road between the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and the northern city of Novi Sad. The Polish bus "for a so far unknown reason swerved off the road and overturned, falling on its right side," a police statement said. Two children, a woman and three men were killed, and nearly 40 people were admitted to the hospital in Novi Sad,...

AN unborn baby killed in a three-vehicle accident in north Queensland has lifted the national Christmas period road toll to 24. Queensland police added the unborn baby to the toll after a pregnant woman, 32, was killed in an accident on the Flinders Highway near Charters Towers around 3.30pm (AEST) yesterday. A ute travelling west and a sedan headed east collided, before the sedan careened into another car driven by the pregnant woman, a police spokeswoman said. The pregnant woman's car was travelling behind the ute. The woman, from Edmonton, south of Cairns, was taken to Townsville Hospital where she...