Kochi: Twenty four persons including 22 school students were injured when a school van turned over while climbing a hill near Thiruvananthapuram today, media reports said.
The incident occurred at Nilamel Veykal
near the border of Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram.
The students were from Believers Church Vidya Jyothi English School in Kilimanoor. The accident was reported at Maramkuzhy in Nilamel around 1.30 pm.
Locals said the bus was ascending a slope when it lost control and fell into a nearby plot. The locals rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to hospital.
All the students were rushed to Kadakkal Taluk Hospital and another private hospital. “The bus was finding it hard to drive up the slope. A car was coming in the opposite direction, which halted by the roadside to make way for the bus. Still, the bus couldn’t move forward.
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