NELSPRUIT, South Africa, June 10 (UPI) -- Three students from a British agricultural college were killed Thursday when their tour bus crashed in South Africa, authorities said.
Four other students remained in intensive care in a hospital, The Times of London reported. Two women, both 19, died when they were ejected from the bus during the crash, and a 19-year-old man whose spine was fractured died on the operating table a few hours after the collision.
The group of 18 students and two teachers from Brooksby Melton College in Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire were on a field trip to Swaziland. They had been scheduled to fly back to England from South Africa Friday.
The bus left a mountain road at Bulembu Pass about 30 miles from Nelsprui, police said. No other vehicles were involved.
The pass near the Swaziland border is known as a high-accident area. Brenda Greaves told the BBC her daughter, Rachel, had described the crash to her.
"She said they were going around a very nasty bend and the driver lost control and the bus just toppled over," Greaves said.
The field trip was part of the college's program in animal management and welfare.
