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4 Kids Killed in School Bus Crash

Posted Feb 20, 08 4:10 AM CST in US 

(Newser) – Four young students heading home were killed yesterday when their school bus was broadsided by a van on a rural highway in southwestern Minnesota, the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune reports. "Some of these kids were so little," said a motorist who helped evacuate children from the rooftop emergency hatch of the toppled bus. "And there were just so many. They were screaming and crying. Some were bleeding." Once children were safely on the ground, some called out for siblings still inside.

A dozen injured children were rushed to area hospitals. The weather was clear at the time and it was not immediately known why the bus and at least two other vehicles crashed. The bus was carrying children from kindergarten to 12th grade. “This is a sad night for Minnesota,” said the state's governor. “It is especially heartbreaking when young lives are lost."

Source Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Rescue workers are seen at the site of a bus crash Tuesday Feb. 19, 2008 on Cottonwood, Minn. 4 students were killed and at least 12 others, many of them children, were taken to hospital after the crash....   (Associated Press)
Rescue workers are seen at the site of a bus crash Tuesday Feb. 19, 2008 on Cottonwood, Minn. (AP Photo/Rae Kruger, Marshall Independent)   (Associated Press)
Rescue workers are seen at the site of a bus crash Tuesday Feb. 19, 2008 on Cottonwood, Minn. A crash involving a school bus and other vehicles in southwestern Minnesota has left at least 4 people dead,...   (Associated Press)
Rescue workers are seen at the site of a bus crash Tuesday Feb. 19, 2008 on Cottonwood, Minn. A crash involving a school bus and other vehicles in southwestern Minnesota has left at least 3 people dead,...   (Associated Press)
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