2 January 2012 Last updated at 07:58 ET

India bus crash kills 10 children and driver in Haryana

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At least 10 children have been killed in a school bus crash in the northern Indian state of Haryana, police say. Their driver also died.

Twenty others were injured when the bus and a truck collided on Monday morning on the Saha-Shahbad road near Ambala.

Police said visibility was poor amid a thick blanket of fog.

The children, five- to eight-year-olds, were students of Arjun Public School, officials said. Six injured children are in a critical condition.

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