MOSCOW, December 22 (Sputnik) — Six people are feared to have been killed after a garbage truck in Glasgow, Scotland ran off the road onto a sidewalk and crashed into a hotel near Queen Street railway station in the city’s center, The Telegraph reports.
Emergency services surrounded the scene of the accident which occurred around 2:30 pm on Monday, and roads surrounding the city’s downtown were closed. A spokesman for Police Scotland noted that the officers were dealing with a “serious incident”. A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance service noted that the crash had “caused fatalities,” and “double [digit] casualties”, The Scotsman explained.
The truck crashed into the Millennium hotel; the sidewalk outside had been packed with Christmas shoppers waiting to cross the road, the Daily Record explained.
Daily Record sports writer Keith Jackson, who went to the scene of the accident, noted that “it’s a scene of panic down here,” and that “everyone is in complete shock.” Onlooker Brett Molloy tweeted his shock and horror over the incident: “Horrible, horrible scenes. Even worse at this time of the year,” and “Whole of George square is shut off, bodies on the road. Scary man”, The Scotsman reported.
