School bus accident in Colombia kills 17, injures 20

A person poses holding a phone displaying a memorial image of the Liceo Antioqueno’s 2025 graduating class, some of whom died in a recent bus accident, in Bello, Colombia, December 14, 2025. REUTERS/Juan David Quintero

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Seventeen people were killed and 20 were injured after a bus carrying school children fell off a cliff in a rural area in northern Colombia, the local governor said on Sunday night.

In a post on X earlier in the day, the governor of Antioquia, Andres Julian, said the bus was traveling from the Caribbean town of Tolu to Medellin after a school trip and was carrying students from the Antioqueño High School.