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Thai school bus crash kills 12

A bus packed with high school students going on a camping trip has collided with a truck in central Thailand, killing 12 people.

Thai police say about 60 students and their teachers were aboard the bus when the accident occurred about 90 kilometres north of Bangkok.

Hospital officials said that 47 people were injured, four of them critically.

25/01/2002 4:32:16 AM | ABC Radio Australia News

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