Four children, their driver and a 20-year-old have been killed when the minibus they were travelling in crashed head-on into a truck in France.
Local prosecutor Alex Perrin, speaking to reporters hours after the accident, which took place on Tuesday close to the village of Courteranges near Troyes in central France, revised an earlier toll that had said five children and their driver were killed.
"There was an extremely brutal impact and six people were killed - the driver, four children and a 20-year-old man," he said, adding the children were aged 11 to 13.
He confirmed the minibus drifted to the opposite lane and hit the truck.
At least three other people were badly injured in the crash, but their condition was not critical, while the truck driver was "in shock", Perrin said.
The crash is one of the most serious involving children since 1982 when 53 people - including 44 children - died when their bus caught fire after it collided with several vehicles on a motorway.
