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| France train crash: Four children killed in 'terrible accident' involving school bus near Perpignan | |
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| Four children have been killed in a crash between a train and a school bus in southern France. | |
| The French interior ministry confirmed four children had died. Local media reported that seven other people had been seriously hurt, with another 12 lightly injured. | |
| The Pyrenees-Orientales authority tweeted that the collision occurred on Thursday afternoon on a railway crossing at a small town about nine miles west of Perpignan, close to the border with Spain. | The Pyrenees-Orientales authority tweeted that the collision occurred on Thursday afternoon on a railway crossing at a small town about nine miles west of Perpignan, close to the border with Spain. |
| Emergency services have been deployed to the site of the accident, which happened between Millas and Saint-Feliu-d'Amont. | Emergency services have been deployed to the site of the accident, which happened between Millas and Saint-Feliu-d'Amont. |
| The country’s prime minister Edouard Philippe and transport minister Elizabeth Borne said they would travel immediately to the crash site. | |
| “Emergency and public services are fully mobilised,” Ms Borne said on Twitter, describing the crash as a “terrible accident”. | |
| An image posted by Radio France showed the white bus had been smashed in half in the crash. | |
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