NEW YORK: An American school bus on Thursday collided with a dump truck on a New Jersey interstate, killing a student and a teacher, wounding 42 others.
According to details, the sad accident occurred in the broad daylight at Mount Olive, about 80 kilometers west of New York, when a bus was taking the school children to Waterloo village on a class outdoor education trip.
At least 45 people were on board, including 38 students. Two were killed and the other 43 were rushed to medical facility, some of them critically injured and undergoing surgery, media reported.
The exact cause of the accident was not immediately clear, while the driver of the dump truck, with which the school bus collided, was also among the injured.