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West Bengal: Student killed in school bus crash

| | Sep 20, 2016, at 09:41 pm
Kolkata/East Midnapore, Sept 20 (IBNS): A fourth standard student was killed and 15 others were seriously injured when a school bus collided head-on with a speeding truck in Contai (Kanthi) in West Bengal's East Midnapore district on Tuesday morning, reports said.

According to reports, a Digha bound truck suddenly lost control and crashed into a private school's bus on National Highway 116-B near Chhatradhara area.

School bus's driver and helper and 14 students were injured in the mishap and rushed to Contai Sub-Divisional Hospital, where one class-IV kid- Tulona Bera- was declared dead.

Police, however, seized the truck and arrested its driver.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

 

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