By Euronews
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A motorway pile-up in France has left at least 65 people injured, five of them in a serious condition.
A motorway pile-up in France has left at least 65 people injured, five of them in a serious condition.
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It happened early on Monday morning on the A13 motorway in the Yvelines region, near Paris.
Two buses, an articulated lorry and four cars were involved in the crash at around 5 am.
Dozens of firefighters and medical teams rushed to the scene, evacuating the injured to hospital.
The affected section of road was closed for hours.
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Major traffic jams built up until the stretch of motorway reopened late in the morning.
The cause of the accident is still not known.