A driver and a passenger were seriously injured this morning when their white Maruti 800 car was involved in collision with a route bus.

The accident happened shortly before 6 a.m. at the junction of a road leading to Bulebel industrial estate.

The driver, a 25-year-old man from Zabbar, and the passenger, a 26-year-old man, also from Zabbar, wereboth critically injured and in danger of dying, the police said. The bus was driven by a 60-year-old man from Zejtun.

Two Civil Protection rescuers who were called to extract them from the wreckage suffered slight injuries when what is believed to have been hydraulic fluid exploded.

The road - Triq San Anard - is currently closed while the police conduct their investigations.

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