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Six dead in Baltimore school bus crash Deadly Baltimore bus crash 'looks like a bomb exploded'
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Six people have died in a crash between a school bus and a city transport bus in Baltimore. A school bus has crashed into a city transport bus in Baltimore, killing six and injuring 10 others, say police.
There were no children on board at the time of the collision, which occurred at 06:30 local time (10:30 GMT). The yellow school bus hit a car before colliding into the side of the city bus that was carrying early morning commuters.
Photos online show the front half of the yellow bus collapsed in, and the side of the transit bus shorn off. The accident killed the school bus driver and five others on the city bus. There were no school children on board.
Police have shut down traffic in the area of southwest Baltimore, where the crash occurred, and are still confirming how many have been injured. Photos show the school bus' front end crumpled into the commuter bus' flank. The cause of the crash was unclear.
"We are in the process of gathering information on the bus crash. We will advise once we have more. Understand this is a fluid situation," Baltimore police spokesman TJ Smith wrote on Twitter. "It literally looks like a bomb exploded in the bus and it's catastrophic damage," said Baltimore police spokesman TJ Smith.
Local media say there were no markings on the bus to indicate which school it belongs to, but the crash scene is about two blocks away from the Mount St Joseph High School. He told a news conference the school bus rear-ended a Ford Mustang before hitting a pillar at a cemetery and veering into oncoming traffic, colliding with the Maryland Transit Administration bus on the driver's side.
Baltimore schools spokeswoman Edie House Foster told the Baltimore Sun newspaper that the bus was contracted for the city school system, but she could not immediately say which school it belonged to. Ten people were taken to area hospitals for injures which ranged "from minor to critical", he added.
A severely damaged Ford Mustang was also found over a block away near a large skid mark trail. Those included eight people on the city bus, and an aide who was the only passenger on the school bus.
Police say that car crash is connected to the bus collision. Police shut down traffic in the area of southwest Baltimore where the crash occurred.
None of the victims have been identified yet. The severely damaged Ford Mustang was found over a block away near a large skid mark trail.
Police said the medical examiner would determine whether a health emergency led to the accident.
"There aren't any skid marks. So something catastrophic took place and it's something we're continuing to investigate," said Mr Smith.
The bus had been on its way to pick up a student a few blocks away.