At Least 7 People Die When a School Bus Plunges Into a River in Northwest Syria

DARKUSH, Syria—At least seven people drowned and 20 were injured, most of them children, when a school bus skidded off the road and plunged into a river in northwestern Syria on Thursday, emergency responders said. The accident happened near the town of Darkush, west of the city of Idlib, where the bus plunged into the Orontes River, a local civil defense organization also known as the White Helmets said in a statement. Rescue teams searched for about six hours for survivors in the cliffside and in the river, it said. It was not immediately clear what caused the bus to go off the road. Images from the scene showed a steep crag overlooking the riverbed where searchers were scrambling over boulders....