A bus carrying school children, teachers and parents has plunged into an irrigation canal in southern Turkey, killing 14 people — six of them children, officials and reports said Monday. The incident happened when the bus was returning from a school trip to a national park and museum in the southern province of Osmaniye, Gov. Kerem Al said. Security camera video of the accident showed the bus driving into oncoming traffic at an intersection, being slammed by a car and rolling into the canal.
By-passers and residents jumped into the canal to try and rescue people trapped inside the bus, Hurriyet newspaper reported. Most of the bodies were recovered by divers.
The children were from a school in the town of Iskenderun in Hatay province, which borders Syria and lies just south of Osmaniye. Hurriyet said the dead included a teacher, the bus driver and the driver's assistant.
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