2 California College Students Are Among 5 Americans Killed in India Bus Crash

Five Americans were killed and four injured, three seriously, in a bus crash Thursday near the Indian city of Agra, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.

Local news agencies reported that two Indians also were killed when the bus, carrying 30 passengers, lost control, went into a ditch and rolled over.

The Americans were on an excursion organized by the University of Pittsburgh to visit the Taj Mahal. Four of the five killed were students participating in a semester-long international study program that goes around the world on a 23,500-ton passenger ship. The husband of a university staff member also was killed.

Two Californians were among the dead. UCLA senior Cherese Mari Laulhere, 21, was a geography major slated to graduate next spring. Laulhere grew up in Long Beach and attended Wilson High School. This was her first trip abroad, said her father, Larry Laulhere. Jenna Druck, 21, from Del Mar, was a communications major at the University of Colorado.