Rheenendal

Bus plunges into river.

The full devastation of the tragedy was driven home yesterday as distraught and shocked parents attended a meeting with all the pupils at Rheenendal Primary School in the local community hall.

Fourteen children lost their lives, along with bus driver Taan Colin Payle, 65, when their African Express school bus, contracted by the Western Cape Education Department to take them to school every day, plunged into the Kasatdrift River about 20km from Knysna.