13-year-old dead, 2 hurt after bus full of kids flips in South Carolina

A 13-year-old boy is dead after a school bus full of kids blew a tire and flipped on a South Carolina highway on Thursday, authorities said.

Two other students were injured in the crash, which occurred when a bus carrying middle schoolers home from a field trip had a blowout, careened into a guardrail, and bounced onto its side on an interstate in Lexington County, according to WBTV in Charlotte.

The bus had been carrying around 35 children and three adults. Eleven people were rushed to the hospital and five were in critical condition, the outlet said.

The county coroner later reported that Jose Maria Gonzales Linares, an 8th-grade student at Pine Ridge Middle School in West Columbia, had died.