Kindergarten bus crash kills 20 in China

---

BEIJING, Nov 16 (AFP): Twenty people, 18 of them children, were killed in a head-on collision between a hugely overloaded school bus and a truck in northwestern China Wednesday, local authorities and state media said. The small nine-seater bus, from a local kindergarten, was carrying 64 people when the accident happened Wednesday morning in Gansu province, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local authorities. Children are often crammed into buses for their journeys to school in China, especially in rural areas, despite strict regulations on such practices. In September Chinese police reportedly charged the driver of a school minibus with "seriously overloading" his vehicle after it was stopped with 64 children on board.