Two killed in western Iowa school bus fire

Authorities continue to investigate the cause of a school bus fire that killed two people in rural western Iowa Tuesday morning.

The fire was reported at about 7 a.m. Tuesday southeast of Oakland in Pottawattamie County.

The two people who died in the fire were the driver, Donald Hendricks, 74, a city councilman in Carson, and a passenger, Megan Klindt, 16, a Riverside Junior-Senior High School student, according to the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office.

No one else was on the bus at the time, officials said.

The Des Moines Register reported the bus was backing out of Klindt's driveway, but then continued on into a ditch and caught fire.

As of Tuesday afternoon, authorities did not know why the bus caught fire.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it would send a team to investigate the fire.