Bangladesh (Reuters) - A bus carrying scores of Bangladeshi schoolboys celebrating a soccer victory against another school plunged off a hill road on Monday killing at least 53, police said.
The accident happened at Mirersarai, 240 km (150 miles) southeast of the capital Dhaka, near the port of Chittagong.
Survivors told reporters at the hospital that the children were in a happy mood, singing and dancing, when the bus crashed 50 feet into a flooded ditch. The weather was cloudy after days of rain.
Police and witnesses said that as many as 80 children between eight and 12 were on board. Local official Giasuddin Ahmed said 53 bodies had been recovered and 15 injured boys were taken to hospital, including 10 in critical condition.
A father of one of the victims died of heart attack after seeing his body, police said. Hundreds of parents and relatives thronged the accident site and the hospital, witnesses said.
Road accidents happen frequently in Bangladesh due to poor roads, poorly serviced vehicles and rarely enforced traffic laws.
Talking through tears, a California woman held captive for nearly two decades told of the pain and determination as she gave birth to her captor's child in his backyard prison, while she was still just a young teenager.
"It was very painful," Jaycee Dugard told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an interview on "Primetime" that aired Sunday night. "She came out and then I saw her. She was beautiful. I felt like I wasn't alone anymore. I had somebody who was mine."
The 31-year-old woman, usually clear and composed, grew emotional when she talked about seeing the first of two girls fathered by her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido.
When Sawyer asked how old she was at the time of the birth in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Antioch she said "14" with a small, incredulous laugh and a shake of her head.
She said she didn't know how she could protect the child, but said "I knew I could never let anything happen to her. I didn't know how I was going to do that, but I did."
Dugard talked to Sawyer on a couch and on a porch at her California home. The blond hair she had in now-familiar photographs from her childhood is now reddish-brown, and she wore a red sweater and a necklace with a pinecone charm on it, representing the last thing she touched before her 18-year captivity.
The interview came on the eve of Dugard's memoir about her time in captivity, "A Stolen Life," which will be released Tuesday.
Dugard told Sawyer there was "a switch" she had to shut off to emotionally survive her rape and imprisonment. Asked by Sawyer how she stayed sane, Dugard said: "I don't know. I can't imagine being beaten to death, and you can't imagine being kidnapped and raped. You just do what you have to do to survive."
She described walking to the school bus stop on the day of a fifth-grade field trip and being zapped with a stun gun on a South Lake Tahoe street at age 11.
"You're a Wizard, Harry," Hagrid told the young, confused boy. "I'm a what?" he responded, perplexed after a lifetime spent downtrodden at the hands of his aunt and uncle. The boy had never heard of such magic, had never seen giants or dragons, or dreamed of a life at Hogwarts.
Oh, how far we've come.
As the final chapter of the Harry Potter saga, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," prepares to touch down in theaters on Friday, fans and marketers have spent as much time on wizarding nostalgia as anticipating the details of the final battle with Voldemort. The seminal adventure for a generation of children -- and adults -- the timeline of Harry, Ron, Hermione and company's adventures mirrors their own path of maturation, with stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have become more friends than untouchable big-screen icons.
To celebrate that journey with the audience, Warner Bros. has released a new featurette that chronicles each of the series' first seven films, a decade-long adventure that has become the most successful film franchise in history.
Watch Radcliffe, Grint and Watson mature from first-time actors from the British suburbs into veritable stars -- and see if you can concoct a spell that can keep you from getting a bit emotional.
Perhaps it's a self-reflexive joke, a commentary on pop culture and its quick churn celebration -- and subsequent abandonment -- of anything that will buzz. But probably not. No, Rebecca Black's just announced new song and video, "My Moment," which will be released July 18th, sounds like a self-serious slapdash biopic of a 13-year old girl who stumbled upon fame and fortune.
And why not?
Black, the singer of the readymade local music studio song and video "Friday," has weathered a hurricane of publicity and mockery since her little production caught fire on YouTube. Her song became the chorus line of the late spring/early summer, and while the fame was nice, she spent much of the time taking on the negative, mob mentality of the internet, from harsh blog posts all the way to death threats.
Now that she appears to be on the other side of the mockery -- starring in a Katy Perry video will do that for you -- Black is set to release her second single, which will celebrate her most recent lifetime achievements. Which, aside for the hit song, include red carpet appearances and hosting an online award show for MTV. Oh, and graduating middle school.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, she'll at least have a true songwriting team behind her; Brandon "Blue" Hamilton, who produced for Justin Bieber, and Quinton Tolbert, who did the same for Hilary Duff, are behind this song. She'll also release a five song EP in August.
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