9-year-old boy on bicycle dead after collision with Ontario school bus

Police in eastern Ontario say a nine-year-old cyclist is dead after he was hit by a school bus.

Ontario Provincial Police say the collision happened around 3:40 p.m. Wednesday in Almonte, a community west of Ottawa.

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OPP say the nine-year-old student from R Tait McKenzie Public School was riding a bike when he was hit by a bus near another school.

Police say he was sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died.

They say he was from the area.

The Lanark County OPP is investigating.