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Q: Rescue workers stand beside burnt-out coach on the motorway A9 near Muenchberg, southeastern Germany, Monday, July 3, 2017 after a bus crashed into a truck and caught fire. . (News5 / Fricke/NEWS5/dpa... (Associated Press) 
  
 BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on bus-truck collision in Germany (all times local): 
  
 11:00 
  
 Police say a group of people from Saxony in eastern Germany was aboard the bus that went up in flames after it crashed into a truck on southern Germany. 
  
 Police say they fear a number of fatalities in the accident Monday morning, in which 31 people were injured and 17 have not been accounted for. 
  
 Oberfranken police tweeted that family members could call a special number for further information on the accident. 
  
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 10:30 a.m. 
  
 German police fear that there may be a number of fatalities after a collision in Germany engulfed a coach in flames. Some 31 people were reported injured with 17 other remaining to be accounted for. German news channel n-tv showed footage of the bus which was burned down to a black, smoking skeleton. 
  
 Police spokeswoman Irene Brandenstein says, "We're afraid that people may have died in the accident." 
  
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 10 a.m. 
  
 Police say a coach went up in flames after it crashed into a truck Monday morning in southern Germany, injuring 31 people and leaving 17 others to be accounted for. 
  
 Police said several people were severely injured in the crash near Muenchberg in Bavaria. 
  
 Two drivers and 46 people and were on the bus, police spokeswoman Irene Brandenstein said. 
  
 German news channel n-tv showed footage of the bus which was burned down to a black, smoking skeleton. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Emergency services rushed to the scene 
  
 Eighteen people died when their tour bus collided with a lorry and burst into flames on the A9 motorway in southern Germany, police say. 
  
 Another 30 on the bus were hurt and two of them were fighting for their lives. 
  
 The bus was carrying a group of German pensioners at the time of the fire near Stammbach in northern Bavaria. 
  
 Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said rescuers were delayed by "gawpers" driving slowly and by the intensity of the blaze. 
  
 The cause of the fire is unknown. Traffic was reportedly moving slowly at the time and the collision between the two vehicles was not described as a major crash. 
  
 The lorry's trailer was also incinerated and the burnt-out wreck ended up a short distance ahead of the bus. The German news website Frankenpost reports that it was carrying mattresses and pillows. 
  
 The lorry driver was unharmed and told police the bus had gone into the back of his vehicle and burst into flames, it said. 
  
 Image copyright AFP Image caption The burnt-out wrecks of the bus and lorry trailer ended up a short distance apart 
  
 There were 46 passengers and two drivers on the bus. The bus driver was among those killed. The passengers were men and women aged 66 to 81, heading to Lake Garda in Italy for a holiday. 
  
 Some of the passengers had got on the bus at Dresden station in the eastern state of Saxony. According to local media in Saxony, the bus had earlier picked up passengers elsewhere in Saxony and also in Brandenburg in the early hours of Monday before going to Dresden and then south-west towards Nuremberg. 
  
 By mid-afternoon forensic teams had recovered the charred remains of 15 people and police confirmed that 18 had died. 
  
 Firefighters reached the scene within 10 minutes of the accident but were driven back by the intensity of the fire. "Only steel parts are recognisable so you can understand what that meant for the people in this bus," said German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt. 
  
 Motoring safety expert Hans-Ulrich Sander suggested that the fuel line that ran under the bus may have ruptured, prompting the fire to spread fast. 
  
 Five rescue helicopters joined emergency workers at the scene. 
  
 Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was distressed by the accident and expressed sympathy for the injured and bereaved relatives. 
  
 She thanked the rescuers for looking after people "in an appalling situation". 
  
 Image copyright AFP Image caption Forensic experts examined the charred skeleton of the bus and human remains inside 
  
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption The burnt-out shell of the bus could be seen as emergency teams reached the scene |||||
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Police in Germany say 17 people are unaccounted for after a horrific crash turned a bus with more than 40 passengers on board into a charred ruin. The bus went up in flames after crashing into a truck near the Bavarian town of Muenchberg early Monday, the AP reports. Police say 31 people were injured in the crash, some of them critically. A police spokesman tells Deutsche Welle that there is "only a glimmer of hope" that any of the people listed as missing will be found alive. "Perhaps somebody ran away in a state of shock," he says. The BBC reports that it's not clear what caused the crash, which happened as traffic was moving slowly on the A9 motorway.