Children drown in India bus crash

School children among at least 44 dead as bus plunges into canal in Gujarat state.

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Many of the dead were children on their way to school [AFP]
“The driver seems to have lost control and the bus broke through a protective railing, plunging it into the canal,” the police official said.
 
“Forty-four bodies have been fished out of the canal so far,” police officer M S Bhabhor, who was supervising emergency operations at the accident site, said.
 
The Press Trust of India news agency said rescuers fished four children from the water alive after the accident.
Source: News Agencies