This Article is From Aug 24, 2011

10 students injured as school bus overturns

Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh: At least 10 students were injured, five of them critically, when their school bus overturned and fell into a ditch here on Wednesday, police said.

The accident took place in Rampur area, when the bus of NRS Public School carrying students to their homes spun out of control due to high speed and overturned.

"With the help of the locals, the students trapped inside the bus were rescued. All the injured students have been admitted to hospital," police Inspector Rajendra Tyagi told reporters in Saharanpur, some 500 km from Lucknow.

The injured students are in the age group of 8-15 years. The driver too was admitted with minor injuries.
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