Four dead after train and school bus collide in France

A school bus and a regional train have collided in southern France, killing four children and critically injuring seven other people on the bus, the French interior ministry said.
A school bus collided with a regional train leaving four dead. Picture: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty ImagesA school bus collided with a regional train leaving four dead. Picture: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images
A school bus collided with a regional train leaving four dead. Picture: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images

Photos from the scene tweeted by a local television station showed the train derailed and the bus shorn in half.

Nine other people on the school bus and three on the train had less severe injuries.

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It happened on a railway crossing in the small village of Millas some nine miles west of Perpignan, close to the border with Spain.

Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne and Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer were at the scene along with 70 firefighters, 10 emergency ambulances and four helicopters.

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was en route.

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: “All my thoughts go to the victims of this terrible accident and their families. The government is fully mobilised to give them emergency help.”

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