Teachers and students at a number of schools around Thailand laid white flowers to mourn those killed in the blaze.
BANGKOK - Grieving families wept as they offered prayers on Oct 2 for 23 children and their teachers killed inPolice have arrested the driver of the coach, which erupted into flames after hitting a barrier on a highway in northern Bangkok on Oct 1.
The bus was one of three carrying children from Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam school in the northern province of Uthai Thani on a field trip to a science museum in northern Bangkok. A convoy carrying the bodies of children killed in a bus fire leaves the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct 2. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Monks and staff at the school in rural Uthai Thani, around 200km north of Bangkok, began preparations for five days of funeral prayers for the victims, who are expected to be cremated on Oct 8.
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