A charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team from Ohio is seen after it plunged off a highway ramp early Friday, March 2, 2007 in Atlanta and slammed into the I-75 pavement below killing at least six people. Photo Gallery>>>

    WASHINGTON, March 2 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed when a charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Ohio fell from an overpass on to a highway early Friday in Atlanta, Georgia, CNN reported.

    Dozens were also injured in the crash which happened to the north of the city's downtown area just before dawn. Nine of the victims were in a serious condition, Atlanta police spokesman Joe Cobb was quoted as saying.

    There were 35 people on the bus, he said.

    The bus exited I-75 highway but apparently did not stop at the top of the exit ramp, plunging off the North side Drive bridge on to the southbound lanes of the expressway, according to two drivers, whose vehicles were hit by the bus or debris falling off it.

    The bus was carrying members of the Bluffton University baseball team, which was scheduled to play Eastern Mennonite University Saturday in Sarasota, Florida, before heading to a tournament in Fort Myers, Florida.

    The National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate the crash.