A bus packed with children burst into flames in Colombia on Sunday, killing at least 32 people, officials said.
The bus was picking up children from an event at a church in Fundacion, Colombia, when the blaze began. “Everyone started to scream and run,” a child who was on the bus said, describing how he escaped through a window.
Victims of the deadly fire included 31 children and one adult, Harry Aaron, a civil defense official in Magdalena department, told CNN.
Authorities are investigating what caused the fire, but one witness said that the driver went to get a drink and left children to put gasoline into the vehicle’s tank.
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