HONG KONG: Eleven people were killed in eastern China's Shandong province on Tuesday after a school bus went out of control at a busy pedestrian crossing, the broadcaster reported. Closed circuit television reported, with disturbing images showing bodies lying on the road and trapped underneath the vehicle.
Six parents and five children died in the incident, while one of them is in critical condition. More than two dozen others were injured. Closed circuit television saying.
State news agency, Xinhua The students were reportedly waiting outside their school in Tai'an city in Shandong when the bus hit them.
The Dongping Police Department said in a statement: WeChat The vehicle picking up the students lost control at an intersection in Dongping County, Shandong, on Tuesday morning. The accident is under investigation, he added.
Numerous similar incidents have been reported in the country recently, including stabbings of children in schools and school bus accidents.
In March this year, a car ran over several people in Dezhou, a city in Shangdong. The runaway vehicle killed two people and seriously injured six, according to state media reports.
That same month, another school bus was involved in an accident when it collided with a dump truck in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The collision killed one person and injured eight others, according to the report. CNN.
In 2023, a stabbing killed six people and injured another outside a kindergarten during the early hours of the morning.
A similar stabbing occurred in 2022 in China's eastern Jiangxi province outside a kindergarten, killing three people and injuring six.
— Additional information from Reuters
