At least eight Palestinian children have been killed in a collision between their school bus and an Israeli truck on a road in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police say Al Jazeera reported
The accident occurred at busy road junction just north of Jerusalem on Thursday.
"There are between eight and 10 Palestinian children dead, aged between 10 and 16, and more than 30 injured who were taken to various hospitals in Ramallah and Mt Scopus," police spokeswoman Luba Samri told the AFP news agency.
The truck driver was injured in the accident.
A spokesman for Israel's emergency services put the injury toll at closer to 40, and said the wounded had been taken to hospitals in both Israel and the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Police said the bus flipped over on impact and burst into flames. "Firefighters began to take bodies out of the bus. We saw there was nothing more to be done," Shalom Galil, a paramedic at the scene, said.
He said on Israel Radio that it appeared the two vehicles had collided head-on in the rain on a "very steep and slippery
road".