Thirteen children dead at bus accident India

mumbai - Thirteen schoolchildren were killed in a bus accident in India. The vehicle they were in collided with a train on an unguarded level crossing.

According to the police, eight more children are injured in the hospital. A total of 22 children were on the bus. The accident happened in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the north of the country. Nothing is known yet about the cause of the collision.

It is the second major accident with a bus schoolchildren within a month in India. On 9 April, 24 children and three adults were killed when a bus entered a ravine in the Himachal Pradesh region.