9 children discharged from hospital after school bus accident Two men check a school bus damaged during an accident on Longxiang Road in H...

9 children discharged from hospital after school bus accident

Two men check a school bus damaged during an accident on Longxiang Road in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 21, 2012. Ten children, all under the age of five, were injured when the school bus turned on its side here on Wednesday morning. Local police said that the children and the bus driver have been hospitalized. (Xinhua/Xiao Jinbiao)

HARBIN, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Nine children who sustained minor injuries in a school bus accident Wednesday in northeast China's Heilongjiang province have been discharged from a local hospital.

The accident happened at 9 a.m. Wednesday on Longxiang road in the Songbei district of the provincial capital of Harbin. A school bus with 11 children onboard overturned while en route to a local kindergarten.

The nine children received treatment at the Municipal Red Cross Central Hospital before being discharged. An employee of the hospital said the bus driver suffered a traumatic brain injury and is still in the hospital's ICU.

Another two children who suffered a traumatic brain injury and collarbone fracture, respectively, are being treated at the Municipal Children's Hospital.

The school bus belongs to a privately-run kindergarten and the bus driver is the kindergarten's director, according to the parents of one of the injured children.