At least 29 schoolchildren killed in Tanzania bus crash

At least 29 final year primary school pupils were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school’s director said.

“We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too,” said Innocent Mushi, director of the Lucky Vincent Primary School in the northern city of Arusha, which the children attended. The dead included 12 boys and 17 girls, he said.

At least three survivors were pulled from the crash site by rescuers and rushed to hospital.

“It’s a huge tragedy,” Mushi said.

The accident happened early on Saturday when the bus went off the road and into the Marera river gorge in Karatu district.