Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh: Two children hurt as school bus overturns
Two children were injured when a school bus in a bid to save a motorcyclist overturned in a moat in Amritpur area of Farrukhabad district here in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police sources said here.
Police sources said that the incident took place near Nagla Bhoosa village when the bus of Rosy Public School in a bid to save a motorcyclist slipped into a 10 feet deep moat.
"Total 37 children were travelling in the bus at the time of the incident," they said.
Police sources said that while 35 children had a narrow escape, Aditya Rajput (15), a student of class 10th, and his sister Divyanshi (12), a student of class 7th, were injured in the incident.
"The siblings were taken to the community health center for treatment," they said.
Police sources said that the bus driver Sunil, a resident of Tharia village under Mirzapur police station in Shahjahanpur district, has been taken into custody and the matter was being investigated.
(With UNI inputs)
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