The bus crashed through a fenced barrier and fell onto Interstate 75
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A bus carrying a college baseball team has plunged off a motorway ramp in the southern US state of Georgia, killing at least six people, officials say.
A number of people were also injured in the crash that took place early on Friday, reports say.
Rescue teams pulled trapped passengers through the roof to safety. The exact cause of the crash remains unknown.
The charter bus was carrying the team from Bluffton University in Ohio to a tournament in Florida.
It crashed through a fenced barrier on an exit ramp and fell onto Interstate 75.
US television showed footage of the badly damaged bus lying on its side.
"It's bad... It's hard to describe. The bus is completely annihilated," police spokesman Joe Cobb was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
A number of injured passengers were taken to a hospital in the nearby city of Atlanta.
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