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End in sight for Poland's bus route 666 to Hel

In the last chapter of the Bible - the Book of Revelation - 666 is the Number of the Beast, seen as synonymous with the Devil. In Poland there's a bus route of the same number that leads to Hel, a Polish resort town on the Baltic coast. Needless to say it's attracted quite a lot of tourists over the years. But now the bus operator has bowed to pressure from some religious conservatives who claim the route is "spreading Satanism" and changed the number to 669. But what do local people think about the change? We spoke to Alex, a resident of Hel.

(Photo: The 666 bus - as seen in this promotional image from Poland's PKS Gdynia bus company - usually runs during the summer along the Baltic coast. Credit: PKS Gdynia)

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