Update: 16 injured after Flixbus travelling from Stockholm to Berlin tips over in crash

Rescue workers at the scene of the crash on Autobahn 19 at Linstow, Rostock, on Friday morning. Photo: DPA

Published: 17.Aug.2018 09:13 hrs

Several people have been injured after a long-distance bus to Berlin crashed on Friday morning.

The bus was travelling on Autobahn 19 at Linstow, a district in Rostock, Mecklenberg-Western Pomerania, when the incident happened.

According to Danish media reports and Swedish media reports, the bus was travelling from Stockholm in Sweden and had picked up passengers in Copenhagen before the crash in Germany.

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