Nineteen people, including 10 children, were injured when a school bus hit a van in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region Thursday evening, said local police on Friday.

The school bus carrying children home from Heshuo country's No. 2 Kindergarten collided with a van around 6:40 p.m. Thursday in the Mongolian autonomous prefecture of Bayingolin, said county police.

The injured are receiving treatment at Heshuo County People's Hospital. None of them had sustained life-threatening injuries, police said.

An investigation into the accident is under way.

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