Colombian authorities have arrested the unlicensed driver who fled his overcrowded bus after it burst into flames, burning to death 33 young children, an official said yesterday.
An evangelical church leader who had chartered the bus was also arrested, prosecutor Luis Gonzalez told a press conference.
The pair will be charged with aggravated manslaughter, he said, as Colombians expressed horror over Sunday´s tragedy in the northern town of Fundacion that involved children aged three to 12.The driver, who lost two of his own children in the fire, turned himself over to police as families sought to hunt him down following Sunday´s tragedy in which, according to a witness, the bus went up in flames as he refuelled it with a jerrycan.
