A double-decker bus carrying high school students has plunged into a river in southern England. Officials say the bus driver and four passengers were taken to the hospital on Thursday.

A student has described the moment a double-decker bus he was on board crashed into a river, seriously injuring five people. Several teenagers and the driver were trapped inside the vehicle after it veered off the road in Eastleigh, Hampshire.

LONDON — A double-decker bus carrying high school students plunged into a river in southern England on Thursday, sending the driver and four teens to the hospital and leaving more than a dozen others with minor injures, officials said.