Six dead and eleven injured after horror pile-up in Poland

Six dead and eleven injured after horror pile-up in Poland

The accident happened on Sunday afternoon (Picture: EPA) Six people have died in a crash involving ..

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The accident happened on Sunday afternoon

The accident happened on Sunday afternoon (Picture: EPA)

Six people have died in a crash involving six cars and a truck on a highway in western Poland.

The accident happened early Sunday afternoon on a highway near the city of Szczecin, which is close to the border with Germany.

Private television station TVN24 broadcast images showing fire and heavy plumes of black smoke rising from the accident site.

Local fire brigade spokesman Tomasz Kubiak told TVN24 that firefighters found the six victims after extinguishing the fire.

Paulina Targaszewska, an emergency services spokeswoman, said four of the injured had been transported to hospitals. One was a woman with chest, head and spine injuries who was evacuated by helicopter.

epa07637257 Police and emergency workers inspect the scene of an accident on the A6 motorway, near Szczecin, towards Swinouj??cie, Poland 09 June 2019. Six people were killed and 11 injured when a truck collided with six passenger cars. The collision set off a fire causing the roadway to be blocked to traffic in both directions. EPA/MARCIN BIELECKI Poland Out

Police and emergency workers inspect the scene of an accident on the A6 motorway (Picture: EPA)

epa07637256 Police and emergency workers inspect the scene of an accident on the A6 motorway, near Szczecin, towards Swinouj??cie, Poland 09 June 2019. Six people were killed and 11 injured when a truck collided with six passenger cars. The collision set off a fire causing the roadway to be blocked to traffic in both directions. EPA/MARCIN BIELECKI Poland Out

Six people were killed and 11 injured (Picture: EPA)

epa07637258 Police and emergency workers inspect the scene of an accident on the A6 motorway, near Szczecin, towards Swinouj??cie, Poland 09 June 2019. Six people were killed and 11 injured when a truck collided with six passenger cars. The collision set off a fire causing the roadway to be blocked to traffic in both directions. EPA/MARCIN BIELECKI Poland Out

The collision set off a fire causing the roadway to be blocked to traffic in both directions. (Picture: EPA)

epa07637250 Police and emergency workers inspect the scene of an accident on the A6 motorway, near Szczecin, towards Swinouj??cie, Poland 09 June 2019. Six people were killed and 11 injured when a truck collided with six passenger cars. The collision set off a fire causing the roadway to be blocked to traffic in both directions. EPA/MARCIN BIELECKI Poland Out

It happened when a truck collided with six passenger cars (Picture: EPA)

epa07637259 Police and emergency workers inspect the scene of an accident on the A6 motorway, near Szczecin, towards Swinouj??cie, Poland 09 June 2019. Six people were killed and 11 injured when a truck collided with six passenger cars. The collision set off a fire causing the roadway to be blocked to traffic in </br><a href=https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/09/six-dead-eleven-injured-horror-pile-poland-9877013/><strong>Read More – Source</strong></a></p> 
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