24 kids injured as bus turns turtle

Twenty four school students aged between 6 and 14, and a teacher were injured when the bus they were travelling in turned turtle near Baghwanpur village here today.

All the injured of Bholath-based Ajanta Model Senior Secondary School have been admitted to the civil hospital at Bholath while six seriously injured have been shifted to a private hospital at Jalandhar.

The schoolbus was going to Raipur and Bhadas villages to drop students when it turned turtle due to rash driving, according to police.

A case of rash driving has been registered against the bus driver Vishakha Singh, who fled the spot after the accident.