By Xinhua
Ottawa : Seven high school students and a teacher were killed when their bus collided with a truck in Canada’s eastern New Brunswick province, media reports said.
The accident took place just after midnight when the students were returning from a basketball game to their native city of Bathurst.
The driver of the bus lost control and collided head-on with a truck just outside the city, the reports quoted police officials as saying Saturday.
Twelve people, including members of a school basketball team from Bathurst, were in the bus. Four people were taken to a hospital with injuries.
The road condition was said to be slippery around the time of the accident, due to rain and snowfall in the area.