Driver ‘started bus fire’ in China that killed 11 children, state media reports
Five South Korean youngsters were among those killed in the blaze in Shandong province last month
A fatal fire on a bus last month in China that killed five South Korean and six Chinese children is suspected to have been started by the driver, the state-run news agency Xinhua said on Friday.
The eleven young children were killed along with their driver when their bus crashed and burst in to flames in a tunnel in eastern Shandong province.
The bus had been transporting the children, all aged between three and six, to an international kindergarten in Weihai, a city across the Yellow Sea from South Korea.
Beijing does not release statistics on the total number of accidents each year, but the World Health Organisation estimated in 2013 that about 250,000 people were killed on China’s roads that year.