2 students die as bus falls in Kali river

Lucknow, Nov 7 (UNI) At least two children were killed and 34 others seriously wounded when the school bus carrying them flipped off the Bawandara bridge and fell into river Kali in Muzaffarnagar this morning.

Police said the ill-fated bus of the S N Public School fell in the Kali river around 0730 hrs.

The bus, carrying 36 children to the school from nearby villages, was coming from Rohana when the incident took place after the axil of the vehicle broke, the police said.

Anurag (6) and Navajish (7) died on the spot.

While std III students Rohit and Muskan were rushed to a Meerut hospital, other injured were admitted to a district hospital.

Meanwhile, the bus has been lifted from the bed of the river.

Senior police and district officials had been camping on the spot to monitor relief and rescue operations, they said.

However, the driver and cleaner of the ill-fated vehicle fled from the scene.

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