TOKYO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- A total of 19 elementary students and 2 bus guides were injured and sent to hospital Thursday morning following a road accident in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, local media reported.
The students were all sixth-graders from an elementary school in Kumamoto prefecture and they were heading for Nagasaki for a school field when the accident happened.
A total of 80 people, including students and school staff, took the trip on two buses, and one of the buses hit the rear end of a car before being hit by another bus from behind, said local reports.
The cause of the incident is still under investigation, local police said.
