The Latest: 2 people killed in school bus fire identified
OAKLAND, Iowa (AP) — The Latest on a fatal school bus fire in western Iowa (all times local):3:30 p.m.
Authorities have identified the student and bus driver who died after a school bus caught fire in western Iowa.
The fire happened around 7 a.m. Tuesday at a farm southeast of Oakland, which is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Omaha, Nebraska.
The Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office says the bus driver was 74-year-old Donnie Hendricks of Carson, Iowa. The student who died was 16-year-old Megan Klindt.
The bus had just picked up Klindt at the farm before it backed across the road and into a ditch. Investigators say the bus was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived.