MANDEVILLE, Manchester – The Manchester police are confirming four deaths in a horrific bus crash at Bryce about two miles north of Christiana in northern Manchester this morning.

Those who arrived on the scene shortly after the accident told the Observer by telephone that at least three of the dead were female students of the Holmwood Technical High School in Christiana.

A hospital source said the owner/driver of the bus had also been pronounced dead at the Percy Junor Hospital in Spaulding, northern Clarendon just over the border from Manchester.

Police told the Observer that the loaded bus was travelling from southern Trelawny into Manchester when it failed to negotiate a corner, crashed into an embankment and overturned.

Those early on the scene say the vehicle crashed in to a wall and a light post just below the picturesque Bryce United Church of Jamaica and Grand Cayman.

An onlooker told the Observer by telephone that the “entire top of the bus was sheared off”.

The onlooker who arrived on the scene at about 8:45 am shortly after the accident said he been told “several seriously injured” people mostly students had been rushed to hospital.

At minutes after 9:00 am police were attempting to remove the bodies from the vehicle. An ambulance had also arrived.

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