School bus falls into culvert in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district; 20 students injured, 6 critical

At least 17 students were injured, two seriously, in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district on Monday after their school bus turned turtle, news agency ANI reported.

Updated on: Jan 28, 2019, 12:37:53 IST

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At least 20 students were injured, six of them critically, when a private school bus fell into a stream in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district on Monday.

At least 15 students were injured, two seriously, in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district on Monday after their school bus turned turtle, news agency ANI reported. (ANI Photo/Twitter)

The injured have been shifted to a government hospital in Macharla. The police said the bus was carrying 52 students accompanied by a school teacher when the accident occurred on the Srisailam-Macharla highway. The victims from Mandadi and Uppalapadu villages were on their way to their school at Veldurthi.

The police said the driver lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a curve. He is being questioned.

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