Dutch student killed in Spanish bus crash

Officials have confirmed that one student has been killed and 10 others injured after a bus carrying teenage Dutch students on a field trip crashed in north-eastern Spain today.

A spokesman for the Catalonia regional police force says the bus was carrying 60 people when it veered off a highway in Gerona province on the border with France and turned over.

Some of the injured are reported to be in a serious condition.

The cause of the accident near the town of Bascara is not yet known.