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Children drown in India bus crash
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![Many of the dead were children on their way to school [AFP]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/India/2/3/bus-crash.jpg "Many of the dead were children on their way to school [AFP]") | | Many of the dead were children on their way to school [AFP] |
At least 44 people, most of them children on their way to school, have drowned when their bus plunged into a canal in western India, police said.
A police control room official said the accident occurred at Bodeli, 170km from Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat state.
"The driver seems to have lost control and the bus broke through a protective railing, plunging it into the canal," the police official said.
"Forty-four bodies have been fished out of the canal so far," police officer M S Bhabhor, who was supervising emergency operations at the accident site, said.
The Press Trust of India news agency said rescuers fished four children from the water alive after the accident.
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