Traumatised fatal bus crash survivors return to school

SOME of the survivors of Tuesday's horror school bus accident near Clara, Co Offaly, were yesterday back at school and grieving the 15-year-old colleague who died in the freak smash.

Michael White will be buried tomorrow after noon Mass in his local St Bridget's Church, Clara, but yesterday pupils at Presentation Secondary School, Killina, met with counsellors in the school to discuss their feelings after the trauma of the previous day.

Thirty-four students were in the bus when it flipped over onto its roof on a bog road between Clara and Killina. An investigation continues to see if the smash was caused by the back axle becoming detached from the bus.