The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
At least 14 people, including a two-year-old infant, died when a bus carrying junior high school students on a tour trip plunged into a river in Ciloto village in Cipanas district, West Java, on Saturday.
Forty-eight others were injured in the accident.
The Limas bus was carrying a group from Ar-Ridho junior high school in Jati Mulya, Depok, when the crash occurred in Hanjawar hamlet at around 10:30 a.m.
The students, who were on their school vacation, were on their way to a tour of Cibodas park in Cianjur, West Java.
The bus reportedly collided with a motorcycle and car before falling off the 30-meter-high bridge into the 10-meter-deep river.
According to Cianjur traffic police chief Adj. Comr. Basuki, the accident was caused by a malfunctioning brake on the bus, news website kompas.com reported.
The dead and injured were taken to Cimacan hospital in Cipanas.
Of the 48 people injured in the accident, the 22 who suffered serious injuries were then referred to Hasan Sadikin hospital in Bandung.
At the hospital, some parents were overcome with emotion on seeing their dead and injured children.
Sadih, 38, broke into tears upon seeing her son Denny Septian Hakim, who received head injuries.
But Sadih said she was grateful her son had escaped relatively unharmed. She said she was surprised Denny escaped with his life, after seeing the bus wreck below the bridge, kompas.com reported.
The head of the Ar-Ridho Islamic Education Foundation which runs the school, Anssurullah, said the main priority after the accident was to make sure the injured were removed from overloaded Cimacan hospital.
The accident caused long traffic delays near Puncak before traffic was shifted to alternative routes in the area.
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