Seven children seriously injured in school bus crash in Melbourne

Seven children are in hospital with serious injuries after a truck struck a school bus carrying 45 students in the outskirts of Melbourne in Australia on Tuesday afternoon. (Joel Carrett/AAP/AP)

Seven children are in hospital with serious injuries after a truck struck a school bus carrying 45 students on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday afternoon.

Police said the truck hit the rear of the school bus and caused it to overturn at an intersection in Eynesbury, which is a semi-rural community west of Melbourne.