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‘Several victims’ after school bus crashes in France, officials say
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Two people, a child and a young adult, have died after a bus carrying students crashed in eastern France on Friday morning. Three people are in a critical condition and 13 have minor injuries, according to the Bourg-en-Bresse prosecutor’s office.
The bus was carrying around 70 people when it left the road and hit a tree in a ditch near Lent, about 55km north-east of Lyon. The crash happened at around 07:00 local time; emergency services attended and a helicopter took seriously injured people to a specialist hospital.
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In short
- A child and a young adult died in the crash.
- Three people are critically injured and 13 have minor injuries.
- The bus carrying around 70 people struck a tree near Lent.
How this story developed
- 22 minutes ago A school bus carrying students crashed in Lent, eastern France, on Friday morning, leaving “several victims”, officials said. The crash has prompted a major emergency response, with a helicopter sent to transfer people with serious injuries to a specialist hospital.
- 23 minutes ago Two people, a child and a young adult, have died after a bus carrying students crashed in eastern France on Friday morning. Three people are in a critical condition and 13 have minor injuries, according to the Bourg-en-Bresse prosecutor’s office.
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Explained simply
Lent is a village in eastern France, north-east of Lyon, and Bourg-en-Bresse is the nearby town whose prosecutor’s office has reported on the crash. School buses carry pupils between home and school, often with adult staff or other passengers on board.
Road crashes involving buses can affect many people at once, and the response may involve local emergency services and specialist hospitals. Investigators will seek to establish how the bus left the road and what factors contributed.
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