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Samantha Lock

Scores injured in major bus crash on remote rural road

More than 20 people have been hurt after a bus crashed on a country road in Victoria. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Almost two dozen passengers have been injured after a bus crashed on an isolated rural road.

Emergency services responded to reports of a collision involving a bus in Glenburn about 90km northeast of Melbourne on Thursday afternoon. 

A specialist Air Ambulance Victoria helicopter crew and multiple Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance and Advanced Life Support paramedic crews assessed 21 people at the scene.

A teenage male was treated and airlifted to The Alfred hospital in a serious condition with upper body injuries, Ambulance Victoria said in a statement. 

A man in his 50s was treated and taken by road ambulance to Box Hill Hospital, also in a serious condition.

A teenage female was treated and transported by road ambulance to the Royal Children's Hospital in a stable condition.

Another teenage male was treated and taken by road ambulance to Maroondah Hospital in a stable condition with upper body injuries.

The remaining patients did not require emergency treatment or transport, Ambulance Victoria said. 

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