One dead and 11 injured in crash

A teenager has died and 11 other people have been injured, two seriously, after their minibus crashed as they returned from a football tournament in Italy.

The 16 to 18 year olds and their supervisors were on their way back to Sheffield when the minibus crashed on the M1.

The youths were from a Sheffield-based community project called Football Unites, Racism Divides (FURD).

Two people were airlifted to hospital. Nine others suffered minor injuries.

The youths had arrived back in the UK after taking part in the Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-Racist World Cup) in Bologna in Italy.

They returned on Monday and were travelling back to Sheffield from East Midlands Airport when the accident happened.

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