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 small town in central Thailand is preparing for a mass funeral for the 23 children and teachers who died in a bus fire while on a school trip.

A bus carrying young students with their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday and more than 20 of those on board were feared dead, officials and rescuers said.

More than 20 people in Thailand are thought to have died after a bus carrying students and teachers caught fire near Bangkok.

Bangkok bus driver arrested after horror fire kills 23 passengers on school trip - The bus was carrying six teachers and 39 students in elementary and junior high school

BANGKOK — A school bus carrying dozens of students exploded into flames near Bangkok on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, with 13 others unaccounted for and feared dead, Thai officials said.

BANGKOK — The death toll from a school bus fire in Thailand has risen to at least 23, local media reported on Wednesday. Some 38 pupils aged between six and 15 and six teachers were on their way from Uthan Thani province to Bangkok, 200 kilometres south-east of the Thai capital, when a blast occurred on the bus on Tuesday.

About 25 people were feared dead in Thailand on Tuesday when a school bus carrying students and teachers on a field trip caught fire on the outskirts of the capital Bangkok, with 16 passengers hospitalised,

Thai police arrested the driver of a bus carrying young students and teachers that caught fire and killed 23 in suburban Bangkok, as families arrived in the capital Wednesday to help identify their loved ones.

Thai police on Wednesday said they were investigating whether the school bus fire that killed 23 young students and teachers in suburban Bangkok was caused by negligence after filing initial charges against the driver.