Rescue workers retrieve a tourist's body from the top of an open top, double-decker sightseeing bus after it crashed into some low-lying tree branches, in Zurrieq Thomson Reuters VALLETTA (Reuters) - A 62-year-old Belgian man and a 37-year-old Spanish woman were killed and six other tourists critically injured in Malta on Monday when a double-decker tourist bus hit low-hanging tree branches, police said. Local authorities said the three Britons, two boys aged six and eight and a 44-year-old man, were among six people taken to hospital. The accident happened in Zurrieq, a popular tourist destination just outside the capital Valletta that is famous for its ruins and “blue grotto.” Tourists sightseeing around Malta typically use the type of hop-on, hop-off bus involved in the incident. Everyone on the bus - except for the driver, 24, who was not hurt - was foreign. Two dead, six critical, as tourist bus hits low-lying branches in Malta

Two tourists were killed, six others were critically injured, and 44 were treated on Monday afternoon when a double-decker tourist bus hit low-lying tree branches in Żurrieq.
A double decker tourist bus collides with low-lying tree branches in Żurrieq, Malta, killing two adults with six others being critically injured.