A bus ploughed into a crowd of students and parents outside a school in eastern China on Tuesday morning (3), killing 11 people and injuring 13 others, according to police and state media.
The students were waiting to enter the gate of a secondary school in Tai’an city, Shandong province, when the bus crashed into them, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The bus, specially adapted for transporting students, “lost control” as it entered an intersection, the Dongping county public security department said in a statement.
Five students and six parents were killed, he said. One of the injured was in critical condition, while the others were stable, police said.
The bus driver was taken into police custody and the cause of the accident is being investigated, the statement said.
China has faced a spate of car-rammings and stabbing attacks against schoolchildren in recent years, as well as deadly road accidents involving school buses.
In March, a car rammed into a group of students in Dezhou, another Shandong city, killing two people and seriously injuring six others, state media reported at the time.
At the end of the month, a bus carrying students collided with a dump truck in Nantong city in eastern Jiangsu province, killing one person and injuring eight others.
Last year, six people were killed and one injured in a stabbing outside a kindergarten in the southern province of Guangdong. And in 2022, a stabbing, also at a kindergarten, killed three people and injured six in the eastern province of Jiangxi.
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