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| French train crash kills children | French train crash kills children |
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| A train has struck a school bus in the French Alps close to the border with Switzerland killing five children, French police say. | A train has struck a school bus in the French Alps close to the border with Switzerland killing five children, French police say. |
| The accident occurred near the town of Allinges in France's Haute-Savoie department, they said. | The accident occurred near the town of Allinges in France's Haute-Savoie department, they said. |
| At least 30 people were also injured in the crash which happened at around 1400 local time (1200 GMT), according to France's national rail operator SNCF. | |
| French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sent condolences to the victims. | |
| "All of us are thinking of the children, the adults, the victims," he said. "We can only hope there will be as few victims as possible." | |
| Ministers in attendance | |
| The train was travelling between the towns of Evian and Thonon-les-Bains when it struck the bus. | |
| The bus had been carrying 50 children and six adults from the town of Margencel to Yvoire. | |
| "Five children were killed, four bus passengers were seriously wounded - we don't know if they are children or adults - and 27 children were slightly hurt," an official told Agence France-Presse news agency. | |
| An SNCF official said some of the train passengers were also slightly hurt. | |
| Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie and the Secretary of State for Transport Dominique Bussereau were attending the scene of the accident. |