Nurse,patient dead after truck hits ambulance on Queensland highway
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Nurse,patient dead after truck hits ambulance on Queensland highway

Two people in an ambulance have died after the vehicle was hit by a truck and forced off the road at Stanwell,west of Rockhampton in central Queensland.

  • bySean Parnell andToby Crockford

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