Nurpur, India

School children killed: At least 27 people, including 24 primary school children aged between four and 12, were killed on Monday when a school bus left a mountain road and crashed down into a steep ravine, in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. The accident happened about 200 miles from the state capital, Shimla, and involved a bus carrying about 40 children from Wazir Ram Singh Pathania Memorial School in the town of Nurpur. Hundreds of local people scrambled to the crash site to help free trapped passengers and ferry them to a nearby hospital. India has one of the world’s highest road traffic fatality rates, according to figures from the World Health Organisation. More than 200,000 people are killed on India’s roads annually, according to the latest UN figures.