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School bus crash in northern India kills 9 children, injures 20 others

9 Schoolchildren Killed as Bus Collides with Truck in India   photo: (FNA)

Published July 30, 2013

Associated Press

NEW DELHI –  A police official says nine schoolchildren have been killed and 20 others injured when a school bus collided with a truck in northern India.

Police officer Vishnu Khatri says the crash happened early Tuesday as the bus carrying around 30 children collided head-on with a truck in Hanumangarh in Rajasthan state.

At least seven children died instantly, while two others died in a nearby hospital, Khatri said.

Police have launched a search for the drivers of both vehicles who fled after the accident.

Local residents said the bus driver was trying to overtake another vehicle when the bus crashed into the truck coming from the opposite side.

Hanumangarh is about 350 kilometers (220 miles) northwest of New Delhi.

Two Swiss trains collide, 35 injured, driver feared dead

Swiss rescue workers wheel a wounded person on a stretcher after two regional trains crashed head on near Granges-Pres-Marnand near Payerne

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GRANGES-PRES-MARNAND, Switzerland (Reuters) – Two trains collided head-on in Switzerland on Monday evening, injuring about 35 people, five seriously, police said.

The driver of one of the trains was still unaccounted for and thought to be inside the wreckage, at Granges-près-Marnand in the canton of Vaud, police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said.