Four British students remained seriously ill in hospital following a bus crash in South Africa which killed three of their companions.
The students, from a further education college in Leicestershire, were in the country on a field trip when their driver apparently lost control on a bend, leading to the bus overturning.
Two women students died at the scene on the Bulembu road, a few miles from Barberton near Nelspruit.
A male student died later in hospital. As well as the four students seriously injured, another eight were kept in the Nelspruit hospital overnight for observation. The two course lecturers on the trip were among those admitted to hospital. Four students were discharged to a local hotel where they joined other members of the group.
The casualties, who ranged in age from 18 to 30, were understood to have suffered injuries ranging from a fractured spine to head and face injuries. The group of 18 students and two teachers from Brooksby Melton College in Melton Mowbray is believed to have arrived in the country on June 1. The bus was travelling on the road from Swaziland when the crash happened.
