Narrow escape for 60 students as private school bus falls into dry canal, 20 students suffer injuries

Some 20 schoolchildren were injured when an overloaded private school bus carrying around 60 students overturned and fell into a dry irrigation canal at Ganeshpadu village in Penuballi mandal of Khammam district on Friday evening.

According to the police, the bus belonging to Sri Vivekananda School at Moddulagudem village in neighbouring Vemsoor mandal was on its way to Ganeshpadu from the school, ferrying the students to their homes, when the accident occurred.

Nearly 60 students on board the jam-packed bus had a narrow escape when the speeding bus turned turtle before falling into a canal near Ganeshpadu. At least 20 students suffered minor injuries.

The bus was moving at a high speed at an accident-prone spot when the driver lost control of the vehicle leading to the accident.

The incident bore a striking resemblance to another road accident involving a private engineering college bus in Aswapuram mandal of Bhadradri Kothagudem district, which left around 30 students injured earlier in the day.