Overpacked China school bus crashes, 18 kids die (AP)

BEIJING ? Relatives of poor children in a remote rural area who were injured when their overcrowded school minibus crashed said Thursday their parents had worried for their safety every time they got into the makeshift bus.

The nine-seater vehicle was stuffed with 62 kindergarten students, a teacher and the driver when it crashed head on with a heavy truck on Wednesday morning on its way to school in China's Gansu province.

At least 18 kindergarten students and the two adults were killed, officials said. The two people in the truck were unhurt.

At Qingyang No. 1 People's Hospital, one of the two hospitals where the dozens of injured children were being treated, relatives said they knew their school bus was overcrowded.

"It was very dangerous," said a man who would give only his surname, Zhou. "Parents were worried about their children every time they sent them in the school bus because it was carrying way too many children."

Zhou is the uncle of 5-year-old Wu Cheng, who had been sitting in the back of the school bus when it slammed into the truck. He was injured to his head and feet, and his nose was bleeding intermittently in hospital.

His parents, like many of those of the young crash victims, were migrant workers, farmers and other poor people pushed to seek work outside of the countryside. Wu's parents work in Shanghai and heard of the bus crash on the news. They were hurrying to the hospital and were expected to arrive Thursday evening.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111117/ap_on_re_as/as_china_bus_accident

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