I believe there was only one school bus, and all passengers and the driver were evacuated from it. It was not in the water.
I am only stating what I know from watching this since it occurred, and the live broadcasts form KTSP.
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I hope I’m wrong...
ap update
7 killed in Minneapolis bridge collapse
PATRICK CONDON and GREGG AAMOT, Associated Press Writers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070802/ap_on_re_us/minnesota_bridge_collapse
MINNEAPOLIS - An interstate bridge jammed with rush-hour traffic suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River Wednesday, pitching dozens of cars 60 feet into the water and killing at least seven people.
The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in the midst of being repaired and had several lanes closed when it crumbled.
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The steel-arched bridge, which was built in 1967, rises about 64 feet above the river. An estimated 50 vehicles plunged into the water and onto the land below.
A burning truck and a school bus clung to one slanted slab. The bus had just crossed the bridge before it crumpled into pieces.
Christine Swift’s 10-year-old daughter, Kaleigh, was on the bus returning from a field trip and called her mother. “She was screaming, ‘The bridge collapsed!’” Swift said.
She said a police officer told her all the kids got off the bus safely.
It appeared that the center section of the bridge dropped straight down and pancaked in the middle of the river, leaving several vehicles stranded on a broken island of wreckage. As divers plumbed the waters, other rescuers searched frantically for victims amid broken, zigzagged sections of blacktop. Some of the injured were carried up the riverbanks.
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I heard on one station reports of two school buses going into the river. Not confirmed.
Reporting seven dead now.