At least 43 killed in French bus crash, worst in decades


A frame grab taken from French iTele video footage shows an aerial view of the site where a coach (Bottom) carrying members of an elderly people's club collided with a truck (Top) outside Puisseguin near Bordeaux, western France, October 23, 2015. REUTERS/iTele/via REUTERS TV

PUISSEGUIN, France (Reuters) - At least 41 people on a bus carrying elderly day-trippers were killed early on Friday when the bus hit a truck head-on and caught fire, in France's worst road crash in more than 30 years.

Two people, including a young boy, died in the truck. A total of eight people were injured.

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