Children in Indian bus tragedy

More than sixty children and several teachers are feared drowned after a bus packed with school-children plunged into the River Ganges in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Fifty-three bodies have been recovered and another eleven people are missing, presumed drowned.

Villagers near the town of Jalangi tried to save the children, but rescue efforts were hampered by fast currents.

Police say the bus was carrying the school party back from a picnic when it crashed in thick fog.

It's the latest in a series of bus tragedies in India.

Last November, twenty-seven school-children drowned when their bus came off a bridge near the capital, Delhi.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service