20 killed as overcrowded school bus crashes

EIGHTEEN nursery school children were killed when a coal truck slammed into their “drastically” overcrowded school van in northwest China, local media reported, prompting an outcry about the country’s deadly roads.

The collision on a rural road in Zhengning County, Gansu province, also killed the driver of the van and a teacher onboard, the Xinhua news agency said.

Another 44 people were hurt — 10 of them seriously — in the accident, one of the worst on China’s roads for some time.