Bosnia Bus Crash Injures 27 Wisconsin Residents, Bosnian Driver

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By Becky Ogann

Story Created: Jun 11, 2007 at 4:38 PM CST

Story Updated: Jun 11, 2007 at 9:22 PM CST

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - A bus carrying Wisconsin residents to a Catholic shrine collided with another vehicle Monday in Bosnia, injuring 27 passengers and the Bosnian bus driver.

A doctor at Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital says they are assessing the injuries but they know that at least three people have serious injuries. Twenty people are there and the others are at the General Hospital -- according to the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo.

The embassy says group is from Wisconsin.

State Department spokeswoman Leslie Phillips says she can't release any information on the passengers -- including where they are from -- until they get their permission.

Bosnian police say the bus was carrying 34 passengers when it hit a vehicle in Tarcin -- about 12 miles south of Sarajevo.

The embassy says the bus was going to the southern Bosnian town of Medjugorje, where millions have visited a shrine since 1981. That's when six Bosnian Croats said they began seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

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