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Angelo Laurence, Gleaner Writer
CHRISTIANA, Manchester:
THE JOY of their recent victory at the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships turned to mourning yesterday morning for students and staff members of Holmwood Technical High School.
Three of the school's students and an adult who were passengers on a Toyota Hiace minibus travelling from Trelawny to Christiana, Manchester, lost their lives when the bus got out of control in Bryce district, two miles to the north of Christiana, and overturned.
<span style="font-weight: bold">The bus, which also had 15 other Holmwood students on board, slammed into a wall, ripping its roof off before coming to a halt.</span> The owner, Anthony Brown, who was also the conductor, later died at the Percy Junor Hospital in Spaldings, while the three students died on the spot. The driver of the bus, who has only been identified as Buck, could not be located by the police up to press time.
The dead students have been identified as Venecia Buckle, a sixth-form student; Lyonsia Whyte, a grade-nine student, and Patrine Clarke, all of Trelawny addresses.
<span style="font-weight: bold">According to police, 21 people were travelling on the ill-fated bus.</span>
At least three students were said to be in critical condition while two were airlifted to the Kingston Public Hospital yesterday.
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CHRISTIANA, Manchester:
THE JOY of their recent victory at the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships turned to mourning yesterday morning for students and staff members of Holmwood Technical High School.
Three of the school's students and an adult who were passengers on a Toyota Hiace minibus travelling from Trelawny to Christiana, Manchester, lost their lives when the bus got out of control in Bryce district, two miles to the north of Christiana, and overturned.
<span style="font-weight: bold">The bus, which also had 15 other Holmwood students on board, slammed into a wall, ripping its roof off before coming to a halt.</span> The owner, Anthony Brown, who was also the conductor, later died at the Percy Junor Hospital in Spaldings, while the three students died on the spot. The driver of the bus, who has only been identified as Buck, could not be located by the police up to press time.
The dead students have been identified as Venecia Buckle, a sixth-form student; Lyonsia Whyte, a grade-nine student, and Patrine Clarke, all of Trelawny addresses.
<span style="font-weight: bold">According to police, 21 people were travelling on the ill-fated bus.</span>
At least three students were said to be in critical condition while two were airlifted to the Kingston Public Hospital yesterday.
Read the rest here in Gleaner article
wid this statement from Ryan Small, president of the National Youth Council:
how anybody survive that wreckage!
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