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VIDEO: 10 Dead, 25 Injured After Bus Carrying Guests Of ‘Fairytale’ Wedding Crashes In Australia

<p>A &&num;8220&semi;fairytale&&num;8221&semi; wedding <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nypost&period;com&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;11&sol;10-dead-25-injured-after-bus-carrying-wedding-guests-crashes-in-australia&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">left ten dead and 25 wounded<&sol;a> after a bus carrying guests crashed in Australia on Monday night&comma; according to local police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bus was transporting 53 wedding attendees to their hotels following the reception&comma; the <em>New York Post<&sol;em> reports&period; The vehicle reportedly crashed at a roundabout shortly after 11&colon;30 p&period;m&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;two-children-dead-after-city-bus-crashes-into-daycare-it-wasnt-an-accident&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;2zxm4b&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MjA1ODMxNDczOS4xNjg2NTc4OTI1&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4NjU4MzM5My4yLjAuMTY4NjU4MzM5My4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Two Children Dead After City Bus Crashes Into Daycare&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;It Wasn’t An Accident’<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;Fairytale&&num;8221&semi; Wedding Ends With 10 Dead&comma; 25 Injured&comma; Bus Driver Arrested<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The driver&comma; described by authorities as a 59-year-old man&comma; was arrested at the scene&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Tracy Chapman did not immediately specify what the charges would be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chapman also refused to confirm whether speeding was a factor in the bus crash&comma; coupled with reports of a foggy road&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The only thing she would confirm is that there was &&num;8220&semi;sufficient information for us to establish that <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;apnews&period;com&sol;article&sol;australia-bus-crash-10-killed-greta-7f9aecb895a24b301c29f54ca5ea6783" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">there will be charges<&sol;a>&comma;&&num;8221&semi; according to the <em>Associated Press<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The guests had attended the wedding at the Wandin Estate Winery in New South Wales&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1668160958949208065" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Authorities say the wedding bus flipped en route to the nearby town of Singleton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 25 injured were taken to local hospitals by helicopter and emergency vehicles&comma; per the Post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; another 18 passengers and guests of the wedding were not injured in the single-vehicle crash&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has since offered Australian support for the victims and their families&period; Albanese spoke on the juxtaposition of the joyous occasion coupled with &&num;8220&semi;such terrible loss of life&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For a joyous day like that&comma; in a beautiful place&comma; to end with such terrible loss of life and injury is so cruel and so sad and so unfair&comma;” Albanese said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1668237260813205505" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Albanese noted the cruel irony of the bus crashing&comma; even though they were specifically hired to keep guests safe from drinking and driving after the reception&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;People hire a bus for weddings in order to keep their guests safe&period; And that just adds to the unimaginable nature of this tragedy&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The fatal crash took place in a Vineland-filled area that is a popular destination for weddings&comma; the Post reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; a video posted after the crash shows nearby residents leaving flowers at the site of the deadly crash to honor the victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Reuters<&sol;em> reports that it is Australia&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;reuters&period;com&sol;world&sol;asia-pacific&sol;least-10-people-killed-bus-accident-australia-2023-06-11&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">worse bus crash<&sol;a> in decades&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; 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