Melton Mowbray college students in hospital after field trip bus overturns
James Meikle
Three British students were killed and several injured in a bus crash today after their vehicle overturned near a small town in north-eastern South Africa today.
The two young women and one young man, were said by the British high commission in Pretoria to have been in a party of 18 students and two lecturers from a further education college in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
Tonight four casualties remained in intensive care or were in a "highly dependent" state, the British high commission said, and eight were staying at the hospital in the town of Nelspruit overnight for observation. Those admitted to the hospital included the two lecturers.
Another four were discharged to a local hotel for the night where they joined the remaining 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 lacerations. A third person died later in hospital.
