Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA bus carrying school children and parents has plunged into a ravine, killing 27 people. The ministry said the bus was carrying junior high school students and some parents and that 39 people had survived. (Image: Via REUTERS)Supriono, a local search and rescue agency official, said later evacuation efforts had been completed and survivors taken to a nearby hospital. Thirteen of the injured were treated for serious injuries and the bus driver, and teenage passengers, were among those killed. Previously, in December 2019, dozens of people died when a bus fell into an 80m-deep ravine and crashed into a fast-flowing river on Sumatra island.

Source: Daily Mirror March 11, 2021 04:20 UTC