At least 13 children were killed in Nepal today when a bus carrying about 25 students fell into an irrigation canal on the way to school, police said.
The crash occurred in Sunsari, about 500 kilometres east of the capital, Kathmandu.
Witnesses said about 300 people had gathered outside a hospital where grief-stricken parents and relatives received the bodies of their dead children.
Police said nine children had been taken to nearby hospitals.
The cause of the crash is not yet known.
