NAIROBI: Nearly 30 schoolchildren and their supervisors were killed and many more injured when their truck crashed in eastern Burundi overnight, a local official said Monday.

About 130 students from Kigugu secondary school in Rutana province were on their way home from a visit to central Burundi when the packed vehicle overturned outside Musongati, local administrator Revocate Nibigira said.

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