The death toll from a kindergarten bus accident in Guangdong climbed to three yesterday after another pupil died in hospital.
The accident in Yangchun city occurred on Monday, as new national regulations for school bus safety came into effect. Fourteen other children were injured, Xinhua reported.
The children were travelling in a yellow school bus when it collided with a truck, Tan Birong, spokeswoman for Yangchun's propaganda office, told Xinhua. However, her office could not be reached for comment on whether the bus was overloaded at the time of accident.
School bus safety has become a big concern since 19 kindergarten pupils and two others were killed in November when their vehicle collided with a coal truck in Gansu province. The nine-seat minivan had been crammed with 62 children.
After that accident, a further string of fatal school bus accidents continued to grab national headlines, with dozens of children being killed.
Last month, 10 pupils were injured in Harbin when their school bus flipped onto its side. Fifteen children died in December when a school bus plunged into a ditch in Fengxian, Jiangsu . It was carrying 87 children, 35 more than it should have been.