This morning, media across South Africa are reporting the horrors and the heroism at the school bus accident that happened yesterday in Rheenendal in Knysna.

Children have related the screams of their fellow pupils as they tried to escape the sinking bus. One child spoke of a classmate trapped by a window. Older children pulled some of the younger ones to safety. Many escaped out the back window after one quick thinker gained a bleeding hand breaking it.