At least 11 kindergarten children in China died when their minivan plunged into a pond on Monday.
The Xinhua news agency said police have detained the driver of the van, which was carrying 15 children in a rural part of the southern province of Jiangxi.
The deaths of 18 nursery school children in a bus crash in November last year prompted Premier Wen Jiabao to pledge more money for school bus services.
Despite the pledge, there has been a string of similar accidents in rural China, where buses and trucks are old and poorly maintained.
