HONG KONG — A bus crashed into a group of students and parents outside a school in eastern China on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, local police said.
Thirteen others were injured when the vehicle transporting students lost control at a T-junction just before 7:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. Monday ET) and veered into the crowd at the gate of a middle school in Tai’an, a city in the eastern province of Shandong. Six parents and five students were killed, and one of the injured was in critical condition, Dongping county police said in the statement.
Video showed bloodstained children dressed in school uniforms and other people lying on the ground and under the vehicle, which crashed into a tree near the school gate.
The driver involved has been detained by the police, and the cause of the accident is currently under investigation, the statement said.
The remaining students are continuing with scheduled classes and training, and the bus belongs to an “external company,” the school told state-run news outlet China Newsweek.
The crash was a major topic of discussion on Weibo, China’s X-like social media platform, where it had 190 million views.
