Manila, Sept. 28 -- Two Filipinos were killed in a bus crash in Bavaria, Germany, the Philippine Consulate General in Frankfurt said Sunday night.

The bus was carrying 33 Filipino tourists traveling from Milan to Munich when it crashed on the A96 near Buchloe, west of Munich, the consulate said in a statement.

The two Italian drivers were unharmed.

Local reports said the bus was headed to an event of Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival.

"This morning at 05:41 AM (03:41 GMT), an Italian tour bus with approximately 35 people on board, mostly of Filipino descent, was on its way from Milan to Munich for the Oktoberfest. The bus veered off the road and then overturned in the bushes here," Martin Cornils, Furstenfeldbruck police ...