More than 20 people in Thailand are thought to have died after a bus carrying students and teachers caught fire near Bangkok.

BANGKOK (AP) — A bus carrying young students with their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, with more than 20 of those on board feared dead, officials and rescuers said.

A school bus carrying dozens of students exploded into flames near Bangkok on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, with 13 others unaccounted for and feared dead, Thai officials said. Most of the people killed or still missing as rescue efforts proceeded Tuesday evening were children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and 16.