More than 20 children dead in Thailand bus crash

The our bodies of 23 individuals have been recovered after a bus transporting faculty kids crashed and caught fireplace exterior Bangkok.

The bus was returning to the Thai capital after a faculty journey to the north of the nation. The overwhelming majority of victims are believed to be kids.

Movies from the scene confirmed flames engulfing the bus because it burned below an overpass, with enormous clouds of dense black smoke billowing into the sky.

Transport Minister Suriyahe Juangroongruangkit mentioned the bus was powered by “extraordinarily dangerous” compressed pure fuel.

Witnesses say the bus crashed into the concrete barrier dividing the freeway simply north of Bangkok, after a entrance tyre burst.

The bus was shortly consumed by an intense fireplace, and lots of on board have been unable to get out. The reason for the hearth remains to be unknown.

Nineteen kids and three lecturers are reported to have survived, sixteen of whom are being handled in hospital for his or her accidents.

“This can be a very tragic incident,” Mr Suriyahe informed reporters on the scene.

“The ministry should discover a measure… if potential, for passenger autos like this to be banned from utilizing one of these gas as a result of it’s extraordinarily dangerous.”

Piyalak Thinkaew, who was main the search, mentioned it was onerous to establish the our bodies as a result of they have been so badly burnt.

“A number of the our bodies we discovered have been very, very small,” he informed reporters on the scene, including that the hearth began on the entrance of the bus.

“The children’ intuition was to flee to the again so the our bodies have been there,” he mentioned.

Forensic police mentioned of the 23 our bodies discovered, eleven have been male, seven feminine and an extra 5 have been unidentifiable.

The driving force has fled the location of the crash however authorities are assured he shall be tracked down, in line with Thailand’s Inside Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.

The ages of the kids on board stays unclear, however the faculty caters for pupils between three and 15 years previous.

Thailand has one of the worst road safety records in the world, with unsafe autos and poor driving contributing to roughly 20,000 fatalities a yr.

Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, mentioned an investigation was underway. “We’ve got to analyze the hint of driving from the tire marks, the burning hint, and CCTV footage,” he mentioned.