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China school bus rams into crowd, kills 11

POSTED ON September 3, 2024 •   Metro      BY Benedicta Bassey
China school bus accident, where 11 were reportedly killed/ Photo credit: The Star

A school bus on Tuesday rammed into a crowd of people outside a middle school in eastern China killing 11 parents and students, the state media have reported.

State broadcaster CCTV said the driver “lost control” of the vehicle as it approached the school in Shandong province’s Tai’an city

The bus ran into a group of parents and children on the side of the road, according to CCTV.

“As of now, (the incident) has caused the deaths of 11 people, of whom six were parents and five were students,” the broadcaster reported in an update.

Photos circulating on social media showed people in blood-soaked clothes lying in the road near a hulking grey bus.

“They’re all dead, it’s so heartbreaking,” a woman’s voice could be heard saying off-camera in one clip of the aftermath of the crash.

“I’d have been killed too if I’d stood there, but luckily I ran away fast,” she said.

The driver was being held by local police and the cause of the accident was “under investigation”, CCTV said.

Many public schools in China reopened for the new academic year this week.

Deadly traffic accidents occur frequently in the country due to lax safety standards and widespread disorderly driving.

In July, police said a vehicle crashed into pedestrians in the central city of Changsha, killing eight people and injuring five.

A 55-year-old suspect living in the area was detained pending an investigation, but it was not clear if the incident was intentional or not.

 

AFP

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