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A bus carrying schoolchildren ran off the road and onto its side in Germany on Sunday morning. The driver and 27 young people were injured, according to the police. Three girls and a boy were seriously injured, but no one is life-threatening.

Five people lost their lives on Wednesday morning when a FlixBus bus crashed on a German freeway, local police confirmed. More than twenty other passengers were injured.

The storm that swept across Germany on Friday left at least one person dead, nearly 60 injured and caused extensive damage, mainly in the west of the country, local authorities said on Saturday.

Social Democrat Olaf Scholz was elected chancellor of Germany on Wednesday by the Bundestag, putting a definitive end to the 16 years of Angela Merkel's era.

An explosion of unknown origin at a chemical company site in Lerverkusen, western Germany, was causing heavy smoke Tuesday and residents in the area were asked to keep doors and windows closed, site officials said.