Fifteen people, including thirteen children, were killed and 44 others sustained injuries today when a bus carrying teachers and female students was hit by an eighteen-wheeler truck and crashed into a tree in Thailand.

A police official said that the brakes may have failed, which caused the bus to plough into the heavy truck at 05:00 AM in Nadi district of Prachinburi province, about 150km south-east of Bangkok.

The bus was transporting the school children, all aged less than ten years, along with teachers, on an educational excursion..

Source: BNA