India school bus crash kills at least 15 children
Tragic road accident kills 15. SCREENGRAB
At least 15 children were killed and dozens more injured when a school bus collided with a truck in northern India on Thursday, police said.
The driver of the bus also died in the crash, the latest deadly accident in a country with one of the worst road safety records in the world.
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Javeed Ahmed, director general of police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh where the crash occurred, informed on Twitter.
Police in Etah district subsequently confirmed via Twitter.
It is not yet clear what had caused the vehicles to crash, although collisions are a common occurrence on winter mornings, when northern India is frequently blanketed with thick fog.
Road accidents killed nearly 150,000 people in India last year, around 400 a day, according to the data from ministry of road transport and highways.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his condolences to the victims' families.