A bus carrying 44 passengers from Thailand's central Uthai Thani province to Ayutthaya for a school trip caught fire near Bangkok with 25 of those on board feared dead.

Videos posted on social media showed the entire bus engulfed in fire with huge plumes of black smoke pouring out as it stood on the side of the road

The children were on a school trip when their bus caught fire.

The bus was carrying 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province for a school trip in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces, reporters were told.

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.

The school bus was carrying 44 students and teachers when it caught fire after crashing on a highway in northern Bangkok. Up to 23 people are feared dead.

At least 25 feared dead as school bus carrying forty four people including young students and their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok if Thailand

A bus carrying 44 passengers from Thailand's central Uthai Thani province to Ayutthaya for a school trip caught fire near Bangkok with 25 of those on board feared dead.

Bangkok: Around 25 were feared dead as a bus, carrying 44 primary school students and teachers, crashed and caught fire on the outskirts of Bangkok at Thani province in Thailand. According to reports, the accident took place when a tyre burst on a highway while they were returning from a school field trip in the […]

A bus carrying dozens of primary school children has crashed and caught fire just outside Bangkok, leaving over 20 feared dead. The bus was returning from

The disaster began when one of the bus tyres burst on the highway

A bus carrying young students with their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday with 25 of those on board feared dead, according to officials and rescuers.

BANGKOK: About 25 people were feared dead in Thailand on Tuesday when a school bus carrying students and teachers on a field trip caught fire on the o...

School bus fire in Thailand injures 16, investigation ongoing, with no confirmation of fatalities from authorities.

The school bus was carrying 44 students and teachers when it caught fire in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok.

The bus was returning from a field trip when it crashed and caught fire just outside Bangkok.

At least 23 people have died in Thailand after a school bus carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip caught fire in the outskirts of the capital Bangkok.

Oct. 1 (UPI) -- 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.

While the fire has been put out, rescue workers have had to wait for the bus to cool down before searching it for bodies.

Government authorities say a bus carrying young students and teachers caught fire outside Bangkok and 25 of those on board are feared dead.