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At least 21 school children were killed and more injured following a road accident involving a fully-loaded school bus in Nigeria’s southeastern state of Enugu, said an official on Thursday.

The accident occurred on Wednesday on the old Enugu-Okigwe road in the southern state, said Ogbonnaya Kalu, a commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Enugu.

Kalu told Xinhua that the school children were on their way from school when a truck lost control and rammed into their bus.

A total of 64 passengers, including two teachers, were on the bus at the time of the incident, the FRSC official said.

Other injured passengers are being treated in a nearby hospital, he added.

Witnesses said the driver of the truck fled the scene immediately after the incident.

Local police said an investigation has been launched into the incident. 

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake has hit the Aegean Sea off Greece and Turkey on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

At least six buildings have been destroyed in the Turkish cities of Izmir, Bornova, and Bayrakli following the tremor, the Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Twitter.

There were no reports of loss of life yet in the Turkish cities impacted.

“Our teams continue their screening and interventions in the field,” he said.