A bus of an interurban transport line carrying 43 people, including 15 minors, left the road and against a tree in Lent, a small municipality in the department of Ain, east of France. According to the authorities, a 7-year-old girl and an 18-year-old girl died in the sinister and 23 others were injured, three of them seriously. An investigation is under way to determine why the vehicle came out of a road that was "well maintained."

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