Two people, including a young person and a minor, have died after an intercity bus carrying school children crashed near the small town of Lent in eastern France. The accident also injured 16 others, three of them seriously.
Crash Details and Casualties
The bus veered off the road and landed in a ditch, according to photographs from the scene. The Prefecture in the Ain region confirmed the deaths and reported the additional injuries.
Emergency services and law enforcement officers were deployed to the scene following the crash.
Official Response
Transport minister Philippe Tabarot said on X that he was heading to the site following “a serious bus accident.”
“An accident involving an intercity bus occurred near Lent, France, with multiple casualties reported,” the prefecture said in a statement.
Passengers and Reaction
News broadcaster BFM TV reported that the passengers included children traveling to middle and high schools in the area.
Education minister Édouard Geffray told reporters: “It is always a difficult moment when our students, our children, are victims of an accident like this. My thoughts, and those of the government and the entire education community, are with the families.”
