The fatal crash happened in city of Arusha in Tanzania's northern Karatu District, on the edge of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. "The place where it happened is a hill, with a steep slope, and it was raining when the accident happened," Aruba Police Commander Charles Mkumbo said. Mkumbo added investigators were still trying to determine exactly what caused the bus to leave the road. At least 32 children ages 12 and 13 were killed in the accident along with two teachers and the bus driver, police told Reuters. “We are still investigating the incident to determine if it was caused by a mechanical defect or human error on the part of the driver.”

The pupils killed in the accident, which occurred at about 9.30am in Karatu district, were aged 12 to 13, and from the Lucky Vincent primary school on their way to visit another school, Mkumbo said. President John Magufuli sent a message with his condolences to families of the victims "at this time of tragedy and grief." At least 35 people were killed in Tanzania on Saturday when a bus carrying school children and traveling in inclement weather plummeted into a ravine, according to local authorities.
As many as 30 people, mostly children, are killed after a school bus plunges off a road into a steep ravine in the Arusha Region of northern Tanzania.