At least 13 students killed after school van collides with train at railway crossing in UP’s Kushinagar
The accident occurred on Thursday morning when the bus was at an unmanned railway crossing. More details awaited.
lucknow Updated: Apr 26, 2018 08:51 IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi
People try to rescue students from the mangled school bus after it collided with a moving train in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday morning.(ANI/Twitter)
At least 13 school students died and eight were injured after the van they were travelling in collided with a train at an unmanned crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district, officials said.
Expressing condolences, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed district administration to provide all help and medical aid to the victims.
He also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh and ordered an inquiry into cause of accident, ANI quoted an official as saying.
This is the second tragic incident this month involving schoolchildren. Twenty-three children were among 30 killed when a private school bus ferrying them home veered off the road and plunged into a 200-foot-deep gorge at Malakwal in Nurpur in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh on April 9.
More details are awaited.
(With agency inputs)