Police arrest driver of school trip bus after blaze kills 23 - Driver of bus which caught fire reportedly told police he ran away from scene because he panicked

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. Most of the people killed or still missing as rescue efforts proceeded Tuesday evening were children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and 16.

Videos posted on social media showed the entire bus engulfed in fire as it stood on the side of the road. Bodies were still inside the bus hours after the fire.

A school bus burst into flames on Tuesday while carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip near Bangkok, Thailand, officials said.

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

The bus, carrying dozens of primary school age children, was returning from a trip north of Bangkok A bus carrying dozens of primary school children has crashed and caught fire just outside the Thai capital of Bangkok.

At least 25 people were feared dead in Thailand on Tuesday when a school bus carrying primary school children burst into flames on a highway just north of the capital, Bangkok.