Friday 17 / July / 2026
A school bus crash overnight in Uganda has killed 20 pupils and one adult, injuring several others, police said on Friday.
Uganda's government said it would be halting all school trips until further notice in response to the accident.
Parents and other relatvies rushed to the elementary schoolyard in Kampala on Friday morning seeking information about their loved ones.
Uganda Police Force community liaison officer Michael Kananura said in a statement on social media that the crash took place late on Thursday in Chekwatit Village in the Kapchorwa district of eastern Uganda.
The Suzuki bus belonging to the King David Junior School in the capital Kampala from an excursion to the Sipi Falls waterfalls in the region.
Kananura said that 20 pupils and one adult male had been confirmed dead after the crash.
"Several survivors, whose identities are yet to be established" were rushed to local hospitals for treatment, he said, later saying that three adult males and "several juveniles" sustained injuries in the crash.
"Preliminary investigations indicate that the school bus had taken pupils on an educational tour to Sipi Falls in Kapchorwa District," Kananura said. "While returning from the tour, the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle, which veered off the road, struck a large stone along the roadside, and overturned."
