WARSAW—Five people were killed and about 40 injured when a Ukrainian bus careered off the road into a ditch in southeastern Poland during the night, local authorities and rescue workers said on Saturday. Earlier, local media and medical services said six people had died in the accident, but the death toll was later revised. “After checking in all hospitals, where the injured were taken, it turned out that there are five casualties,” a spokesman for the Podkarpackie region was quoted as saying by the state news agency PAP. “We know that one person was brought to a hospital in a critical condition. A life-rescuing surgery was conducted and we hope that this life will be saved,” the region’s governor, Ewa Leniart, told a news conference, saying 14 of the injured people were in a serious condition. There were 57 people on the bus, Leniart added, and a local medical spokesman …
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