More than 20 children feared dead in Thailand bus crash

A autobus carrying dozens of superior schoolhouse children has crashed and caught occurrence conscionable extracurricular the Thai superior Bangkok.

Sixteen children and 3 teachers are reported to person escaped, but 22 pupils and 3 teachers are inactive unaccounted for, according to the country's transport minister.

Officials accidental they person recovered 10 bodies connected the bus, according to the BBC Thai service.

Photographs amusement the autobus wholly destroyed by the fire. Investigators are said to person been incapable to participate the conveyance due to the fact that of the heat, according to section media.

The autobus was 1 of 3 that were carrying children and teachers returning from a schoolhouse tract travel successful the bluish state of Uthai Thani.

Transport Minister Suriyahe Juangroongruangkit said the autobus was powered by compressed earthy gas.

“This is simply a precise tragic incident,” Mr Suriyahe told reporters astatine the scene.

“The ministry indispensable find a measure… if possible, for rider vehicles similar this to beryllium banned from utilizing this benignant of substance due to the fact that it’s highly risky,” helium added.

Thailand's premier minister, meanwhile, has ordered ministers to sojourn the scene.

"As a mother, I would similar to explicit my deepest regrets to the families of those killed," Paetongtarn Shinawatra said.

"The authorities volition beryllium liable for each the aesculapian costs and the compensation for those killed," she added.

The autobus was travelling connected a road into Bangkok erstwhile a tyre burst, sending it crashing into a barrier, a rescue idiosyncratic said successful footage broadcast connected section television.

Video footage from the country showed flames engulfing the autobus arsenic it burned nether an overpass, immense clouds of dense achromatic fume billowing into the sky.

It is not wide what property the children onboard were, but the schoolhouse has pupils betwixt 3 and 15 years old.

Thailand has 1 of the worst roadworthy information records successful the world, with unsafe vehicles and mediocre driving contributing to the precocious yearly decease toll.

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