Eight children killed in bus crash

Eight school children have been killed and at least 50 injured and taken to hospitals in South Africa after a bus overturned when the driver lost control in a curve, the Eastern Cape provincial transport department said today.

Police spokeswoman Nodumiso Jafta told the South African Press Association that the driver would be charged with reckless driving.

Provincial transport spokesman Tshepo Machaea said the school children from the Mtutukazi Junior Secondary School were on a tour to East London when the driver lost control of the bus near Tabankulu, about 185 miles north east of East London.