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Philippine Consulate in Frankfurt confirms bus crash in Bavaria involving Filipinos
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Largest city in Hesse, Germany
Frankfurt am Main, usually shortened to Frankfurt, is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 778,589 inhabitants as of 2025 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the foreland of the Taunus on its namesake river Main, the city forms a continuous conurbation with Offenbach; its urban area has a population of more than 2.7 million. Frankfurt is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.8 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region.
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The Philippine Consulate General (PCG) in Milan and Frankfurt are coordinating with the Filipino passengers and their relatives involved in a bus crash in a town near Munich, Germany.
Two Filipino nationals were killed and eight others were seriously injured, including one in critical condition, after a bus carrying about 40 to 50 passengers crashed on the A96 near Buchloe in Bavaria, Germany, on Sunday, according to initial reports.