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Six dead after council bin lorry mounts pavement

Six people have died and seven people have been seriously injured after a council bin lorry mounted a pavement in Glasgow.

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By Dan Peters | 22 December 2014

Six people have died and seven people have been seriously injured after a council bin lorry mounted a pavement in Glasgow.

Superintendent Stewart Carle said that at about 2.30pm today a Glasgow City Council bin lorry was travelling north on Queen Street outside the Gallery of Modern Art when it was 'in a collision with a pedestrian'.

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