BANGKOK — Police in Thailand arrested the driver of a bus carrying young students and teachers that caught fire and killed 23 in suburban Bangkok, as families arrived in the capital on Wednesday to help identify their loved ones.

Police have arrested the driver of a bus carrying young students and teachers that caught fire and killed 23 in suburban Bangkok, as families arrived to help identify their loved ones.

More than 20 people in Thailand are thought to have died after a bus carrying students and teachers caught fire near Bangkok.

Bangkok bus driver arrested after horror fire kills 23 passengers on school trip - The bus was carrying six teachers and 39 students in elementary and junior high school

Thai police are investigating whether the school bus fire that killed 23 young students and teachers in suburban Bangkok was caused by negligence after filing initial charges against the driver.

A school bus carrying dozens of students exploded into flames near Bangkok on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, with 13 others unaccounted for and feared dead, Thai officials said. Most of the people killed or still missing as rescue efforts proceeded Tuesday evening were children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and 16.

T hai police have arrested the driver of a bus carrying young students and teachers that caught fire and killed 23 in suburban Bangkok, as families arrived in the capital Wednesday to help identify their loved ones.

A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, leaving more than 20 feared dead, officials and rescuers said.

The bus was returning to the Thai capital after a school trip to the north of the country. Videos from the scene showed flames engulfing the bus as it burned under an overpass, with huge clouds of dense black smoke billowing into the sky.