A bus carrying dozens of primary school children has crashed and caught fire equitable outside the Thai capital Bangkok.
Sixteen children and three directers are telled to have escaped, but 22 pupils and three directers are still unaccounted for, according to the country’s carry minister.
Officials say they have set up ten bodies on the bus, according to the BBC Thai service.
Pboilingographs show the bus endly annihilateed by the fire. Investigators are said to have been unable to access the vehicle because of the heat, according to local media.
The bus was one of three that were carrying children and directers returning from a school field trip in the northern province of Uthai Thani.
Transport Minister Suriyahe Juangroongruangkit said the bus was powered by compressed authentic gas.
“This is a very tragic incident,” Mr Suriyahe telderly tellers at the scene.
“The ministry must find a meacertain… if possible, for passenger vehicles enjoy this to be banned from using this type of fuel because it’s innervously hazardous,” he inserted.
Thailand’s prime minister, uncomardentwhile, has ordered ministers to visit the scene.
“As a mother, I would enjoy to transmit my meaningfulest repents to the families of those ended,” Paetongtarn Shinawatra said.
“The rulement will be reliable for all the medical costs and the compensation for those ended,” she inserted.
The bus was travelling on a highway into Bangkok when a tyre burst, sfinishing it crashing into a barrier, a recover laborer said in footage expansivecast on local television.
Video footage from the scene showed ffeebles engulfing the bus as it burned under an overpass, huge cboisterouss of dense bdeficiency smoke billothriveg into the sky.
It is not clear what age the children on board were, but the school has pupils between three and 15 years elderly.
Thailand has one of the worst road protectedty enrolls in the world, with unprotected vehicles and insisty driving contributing to the high annual death toll.
