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Five people, including three children, were killed after a school bus collided with a semi-truck on a highway in Rushville, about 91 km northwest of the US Illinois state capital, Springfield...
(1730 GMT) when the school bus heading east on US Route 24 crossed the center line into the westbound lanes for an "unknown reason" and collided with the semitruck carrying sand, Xinhua news agency reported...
All four people aboard the school bus, including the driver and three children -- one five years old and two three years old -- as well as the driver of the semitruck were pronounced dead at the scene...
