By IANS,
Belgrade : At least 47 elementary school children were critically injured when their bus skidded off the highway near Karlovac in Croatia, media reports said.
Hospital officials at Karlovac general hospital said four of the injured, including a teacher were critically injured and most of them were in a state of shock, Xinhua reported Thursday citing a statement from Croatian news agency Hina.
The students from Velika Gorica town, south of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, were heading toward the Adriatic coast on a school excursion.
According to reports, the children saw the bus driver fall asleep over the steering wheel at the time of the incident.
Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Mayor of Karlovac, Damir Jelic, visited the injured at the hospital.