Thousands gathered in central Thailand on Tuesday to mark the last rites for 20 schoolchildren and their three teachers killed in a bus inferno last week. Devastated families gathered early on Tuesday at the school in Uthai Thani province where the victims studied and worked -- and where families had expected the bus to return safely.

A bus carrying young students with their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday and more than 20 of those on board were feared dead, officials and rescuers said.

Most of the people killed or still missing were children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and 16. More than a dozen others have been hospitalized with injuries. The bus was car

Footage of coffins at a memorial service in Kenya has been falsely shared in posts about the funerals of those killed in a devastating school bus fire in Thailand. The video -- viewed hundreds of thousands of times online -- also included inaccurate figures for the death toll following the bus crash in a northern Bangkok suburb.

The vehicle was returning from a field trip and caught fire outside Bangkok. Rescuers were still searching for bodies in the wreckage.

The bodies of 20 children and three teachers have been recovered after a bus transporting school pupils crashed and caught fire outside Bangkok. The bus was returning to the Thai capital after a school trip to the north of the country.

LAN SAK, Thailand (AP) — A small town in central Thailand prepared for a somber mass funeral Thursday for the 23 children and teachers who died in a horrific bus fire while on a school trip.

OIC confirmed the bus had compulsory motor insurance from Viriyah Insurance. The Office of the Insurance Commission (OIC) has coordinated with insurance companies to provide compensation to the families of those who died or were injured in the school bus fire on Tuesday,