fire erupted on a school bus after it backed into a ditch in western Iowa early Tuesday cheap air max 2019 factory , killing a student and the bus driver, investigators said.
No one else was on the bus when the fire erupted around 7 a.m. southeast of Oakland, which is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Omaha, Nebraska.
Investigators said the bus caught fire after it backed out of a farm driveway and into a ditch across the road. The bus was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
The remains of the driver and a student were found after the fire was extinguished, Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Lt. Rob Ambrose said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Initial reports on the fire indicated that as many as 20 people may have been on the bus cheap air max 2019 outlet , but Ambrose said only the student and the driver who were killed were in the bus at the time of the fire.
Authorities identified the driver as Donnie Hendricks, 74, of Carson, Iowa. The student was identified as Megan Klindt, 16. She lived at the farm where the fire happened.
The bus was from the Riverside Community School District cheap air max 2019 free shipping , which has about 700 students from Oakland and two other nearby towns. District officials said grief counselors were available Tuesday to help students and staff cope with the deaths.
"This morning, the Riverside Community School District suffered a tragedy when we lost a student and an employee in a school bus accident," Superintendent Timothy Mitchell said in a statement. "Our hearts go out to their families and loved ones."
The district didn't cancel classes following news of the fire, but it postponed all after-school activities scheduled for Tuesday.
Bailey Rose, 18 cheap air max 2019 sale , told the Omaha World-Herald she took a weightlifting class with Klindt last year and remembers her caring and energetic nature.
"I know it's even harder for family members to deal with that kind of loss," Rose said. "Friends are dealing with it hard, but family is dealing with it harder."
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's Liu Wenjun clinched her third Paralympic Games gold medal by winning the women's 100m T54 final in Rio on Friday.
The 31-year-old crossed the line in a season's best 16.00 seconds to finish ahead of Tatyana McFadden of the United States by 13 hundredths of a second.
China's Li Yingjie grabbed bronze in a personal best time of 16.22 seconds.
Liu also won gold in the 100m T54 at the London 2012 Games and in the 4x100m relay T53-54 at the Beijing 2008 Games.
She lost her right leg after being involved in a car accident when two.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- A bomb exploded early Monday outside the National Institute of Forensic and Criminology (NCIC) of Belgium based in Brussels, with no casualties reported.
Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported that a car smashed three fences lines to force its way into the site shortly after 02:00 a.m.(0000 GMT) early Monday "before exploding a bomb".
A fire broke out and was later put under control. There have been no casualties so far, said Pierre Meys, spokesman of the Brussels fire brigade.
The motive for the attack remains unknown. Police have sealed off the the area of the incident.
The criminology institute assists and advises the judicial authorities in their investigations.
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TOKYO, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe said Wednesday that his metropolitan government would launch a new fund to promote use of renewable energy, but he refused to take a stand on nuclear power.
Asked about weather the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) is a suitable operator of nuclear plant cheap air max 2019 online , Masuzoe told reporters at the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan: ""Even if we have some shares of the corp., we can't say big words to it. We can express some opinions, but it is subject to the central government.""
Though as the fourth-largest shareholder of TEPCO, the metropolitan government only holds a stake of 1.2 percent, leading to a limited voice on the utility cheap air max 2019 trainers , according to Masuzoe.
The former health minister was backed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to run for the governor. In spite of strong opposition, Abe is planning to restart Japan's 50 nuclear reactors, which were shut down after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
But during the speech, Masuzoe didn't give a straight answer about Japan's future energy supply, just noting that it's up to the central government to decide whether to bring the nation's nuclear energy back online.
He promised to launch a new fund to accelerate construction of bicycle rings in the lead up to Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020 cheap air max 2019 china , and increase the ratio of renewable energy to 20 percent, up from 6 percent currently.
Masuzoe also said he wanted to visit Beijing as soon as possible to learn experience of hosting a successful Olympic Games.
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Spanish tennis player, Rafael Nadal was this Tuesday named the greatest Spanish sports star in history.
The winner of 13 Grand Slam's and the current number 1 in the ATP world ranking, received the award at the Gala for the 75th anniversary of the Spanish sports paper Diario Marca on Tuesday.
Nadal was voted for by readers of the paper ahead of five times Tour de France winner, Miguel Indurain and basketball star cheap air max 2019 kids , Pau Gasol, who is without doubt the greatest Spanish basketball player of all time.
Nadal's feats had been recognized by the readers of Marca in 2007 when he won the Marca Legend award.
The tennis ace has enjoyed a fantastic 2013, coming back from a career threatening knee injury to win events such as the French Open, as well as claiming his 25th and 26th ATP Masters 1000 titles in Montreal and Cincinnati, before then winning the US Open cheap air max 2019 mens , beating Novak Djokovic in the final.