11.   Firemen were working to extricate passengers trapped in the tangled wreckage and officials said it was feared the toll could rise.

12.   All around lay tangled wreckage and debris.

13.   But rescuers were continuing to sift through the tangled wreckage and the death toll was still climbing.

14.   Thick black smoke engulfed the tangled wreckage during the three hours that firefighters worked to bring the blaze under control.

15.   Witnesses in the suburban residential neighbourhood said a fireball shot high in the air as flames and thick black smoke engulfed the tangled wreckage.

16.   Rescue workers said they expected to struggle all night to try to recover charred bodies still trapped in the tangled wreckage.

17.   Shocked rescue workers battled to free passengers, many of them schoolchildren, trapped in the tangled wreckage.