Bus carrying 43 evicted migrants back to Bucharest crashes in Sweden

A bus carrying 43 Romanian migrants crashed early Sunday morning in Sweden after the passengers had been evicted from a shanty town, authorities said. The crash took place in Alvesta, when the bus veered off a highway shortly after midnight, TheLocal.se reported. "It is very, very slippery on the roads in this area. It is completely icy which may have been a cause of the accident," local policeman Percy Nilsson told the Expressen newspaper. The bus driver was seriously injured, but no passengers were hurt in the crash. On Saturday, the bus had set off from Stockholm to take the migrants back to Bucharest. The migrants had been living in a shanty town and were set to be evicted on Monday, TheLocal.se reported. Social service organizations offered a free bus ticket to the migrants after they received the eviction notice. Ninety migrants had accepted the bus ticket home. After the crash, the passengers were picked up by a second bus and taken to a hotel. They are traveling home on Sunday.