At least 16 others are missing in the floods that have ravaged mountain districts of six provinces and autonomous regions. They include 13 dead and three missing in the collapse of a building in the city of Guiyang following a landslide.
The Guangxi regional government said another 21 kindergarten students were sent to the hospital in the school bus accident on Friday, with three listed in serious condition. The bus was licensed to carry 11 people, but had a total of 26 on board.
The driver, teachers and school administrators have been taken into custody, the government said. Overloaded busses have been involved In accidents killing scores of children in recent years as local schools are closed and consolidated into larger institutions farther away from the children's village homes.
Seasonal rains cause major flooding around China almost every year. The worst in recent history was in 1998, when 4,150 people died, most of them along the Yangtze River, China's mightiest.
The massive Three Gorges Dam has largely contained Yangtze flooding, but the problem persists in other parts of the country.
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