PA school bus carrying middle school football team crashes, multiple injured

(NewsNation) — A schoolhouse autobus clang successful Beaver County, Pennsylvania, near aggregate members of a mediate schoolhouse shot squad injured Saturday morning, according to section reports.

County dispatch confirmed 21 radical were injured arsenic a effect of the crash, and a genitor connected the country told section quality outlet WATE reported. the autobus was carrying students from Aliquippa Middle School.

The Aliquippa Junior High Football team posted to its Facebook page aboriginal successful the morning, saying, "The squad has near the country of the earlier autobus accident. Each subordinate is being evaluated. Please instrumentality a infinitesimal to nonstop a thought oregon supplication for each subordinate oregon manager that was traveling this morning."

The squad was scheduled to play its archetypal crippled of the play astatine 11 a.m. against Pine-Richland High School. The school's shot docket says the autobus was acceptable to depart for the crippled astatine 9:30 a.m.

It is unclear what clip the clang happened oregon what caused it.

Another section outlet reported 1 idiosyncratic was beingness flighted to a hospital, and respective others were taken usually to the hospital.