School bus not involved in accident, says Poonch SP

Even as reports of a bus ferrying children falling into a gorge emerged from Poonch, the SP maintained that a school bus was not involved in the accident.

Hours after reports of a bus ferrying school children emerged from Kashmir's Poonch sector, the local police said that a school bus was not involved in the accident. District commissioner of Rajouri Shahid Iqbal clarified that the bus said to have fallen into the gorge had returned safely and there was no loss as reported.

The additional Superintendent of Police of Poonch district also said that the bus with children from Gareeb Nawaz school had not met with an accident and had returned safely.

It was earlier reported that students of the private school were on a picnic when the bus they were traveling in fell into a deep gorge near Pir Ki Gali on Mughal Road.

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