JINAN - A school bus ran into a crowd of students at the gate of a middle school in Tai'an City in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday morning, resulting in approximately a dozen casualties, according to local authorities of Dongping County.
The accident occurred after 7am when the bus, customised for transporting students, collided with students standing at the roadside.
"At present, more than 10 students have been killed or injured", state news agency Xinhua reported.
The cause of the accident is not yet known.
Many public schools in China reopened this week.
In July this year, a vehicle in Changsha struck pedestrians, killing eight and injuring five.