PARIS, Nov 6 – A bus crashed on Friday morning in eastern France near Switzerland, resulting in “several victims”, local authorities said.
Education Minister Edouard Geffray said the crash involved a bus believed to be transporting school pupils. The local prefecture said the collision involved an intercity bus.
BFM TV showed a picture of a blue and white bus tilted in what appeared to be a ditch on the side of the road, while a crowd of people stood outside of it.
The broadcaster reported two fatalities but a spokesman for the civil protection agency told the broadcaster he could not confirm the deaths. The prefecture also told Reuters it could not confirm any deaths.
The transport minister Philippe Tabarot said he was on his way to the scene.
(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout and Makini Brice; Editing by Inti Landauro and Richard Lough)
