The bodies of 20 children and three teachers have been recovered after a bus transporting school pupils crashed and caught fire outside Bangkok. The bus was returning to the Thai capital after a school trip to the north of the country.

A bus carrying dozens of primary school children has crashed and caught fire just outside the Thai capital Bangkok. Sixteen children and three teachers are reported to have escaped, but 22 pupils and three teachers are still unaccounted for.

At least 20 children and three teachers are feared dead after a bus carrying dozens of primary school pupils was engulfed in flames on the outskirts of Bangkok. Some 44 passengers were on board when the fire broke out on Tuesday,