Bus carrying students overturns, 50 injured, five critical
A bus carrying 50 college students to a picnic spot in Gaighat has met with an accident at Ratmate in Udayapur at around 11 Wednesday morning, leaving five seriously injured.
The accident took place when the bus (Ba 2 Kha 850) overturned in a turning due to over-speeding. It was carrying students from Janata Higher Secondary School, Kamalpur, Siraha.
The seriously injured students have been identified as Satya Narayan Chaudhary, Dipendra Das, Balram Yadav, Ram Charan Banar and Suntali Kumari. They have been ferried to Lahan Nursing Home for treatment.
According to police, the bus-driver is on the run.
