Telangana: School Bus Turns Turtle In Mahabubabad, 4 Students Injured

The driver, who is currently at large, was driving at a high speed when the accident occurred in Bodlada village of Danthalapalli Mandal.

Four students were injured after a school bus overturned in Bodlada village of Danthalapalli Mandal in Telangana's Mahabubabad district on Wednesday. The students sustained minor injuries in the accident. The driver, who is currently at large, was driving at a high speed when the accident occurred.

The police are conducting an investigation into the incident, and the injured students have received treatment at a nearby hospital.

Earlier, a school bus carrying 30 students got partially submerged in a flooded street in Telangana's Mahbubnagar. The incident happened when the school bus was passing under a railway bridge between Machannapally and Kodur villages.

Due to heavy rains in Mahabubnagar district, flood water had accumulated under the bridge. The driver of the school bus tried to drive through the water under the bridge but was stranded midway. The students were eventually rescued by the locals and the bus was later brought out from under the bridge.

Recently, a speeding school bus fell into a roadside ditch in a town in Uttar Pradesh, injuring more than a dozen children, police said. The bus of a private school in Bisauli town fell into the roadside ditch after the driver lost control of the vehicle.

Superintendent of Police (rural) Siddhartha Verma said that the bus fell into the ditch after the driver lost control of it as a result of which around a dozen children were injured. Local residents rushed to the spot to rescue the children, Verma said.