S.Africa bus crash kills 20 children

At least 20 children were killed in a bus crash outside the South African capital Pretoria on Friday, emergency services said, as paramedics treated the injured at the scene.

The minibus collided with a truck on a road between the towns of Bronkhorstspruit and Verena, about 70 kilometers from Pretoria.

Many children were trapped inside the bus and most of the fatalities were declared dead at the site of the accident.