The bus with Ukrainian license plates rammed into a height limit gate ahead of an underpass, which “as good as shaved off” the roof of the vehicle, a spokesman of the disaster management authority said.

Altogether 27 passengers were injured, eight of them seriously, the communications director of the Hungarian Ambulance Service said.

Of the eight passengers seriously hurt, most suffered injuries to the head. None are in a life-threatening condition, he said.

MTI photo: Mihádák Zoltán