For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />More than a dozen young children are killed when a bus plunges off a road and into a lake in South Africa's Western Cape. The children were headed for classes at the Rheenendal primary school when the tragedy occurred.<br /><br />Rescue officials say at least 14 children and a driver were killed when a South African school bus swerved off a road and plunged into a lake on Wednesday.<br /><br />The bus, carrying nearly 70 people, crashed close to the southern city of Knysna, about 260 miles east of Cape Town.<br /><br />More than 40 have been rescued and were receiving treatment at hospitals for cuts, bruises and mild hypothermia.<br /><br />A spokesman for ER 24 emergency services said that when paramedics found the bus, it was almost fully submerged with just its rear sticking out.<br /><br />South African Minister of Education, Donald Grant, was visibly moved by the accident.<br /><br />[Donald Grant, South African Minister of Education]:<br />"There is a forensic team which is on its way from Cape Town. We are not going to speculate but the bus has been taken under police guard to a place of safety and there will be a thorough investigation."<br /><br />Officials say most of the children on the bus were between seven and 17 years old.
