France, July 17 -- The bus crashed on Thursday night in the Kapchorwa District in eastern Uganda while returning from a school trip to the region's Sipi Falls waterfalls, the Uganda Police Force said in a statement posted on Friday on social media platform X.

The bus belonged to the King David Junior School, an elementary school in the capital Kampala, police said.

"Sadly 20 children and one adult, who happens to be the founder and director, Mr Tadeo Ssekade, have gone to be with the Lord," Minister of Local Government, Balaam Ateenyi Barugahara posted.

Police said the survivors, including three adults and several children, were taken to local hospitals. Authorities did not immediately say how many people were injured.

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