At least five school children were killed when the Bolero they were travelling in collided with a truck on National Highway no 31 in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal on Thursday afternoon.
The accident took place when the children, all from the same village, were returning home from a school in Kishanganj district of Bihar. The highway runs parallel to the border of Bengal and Bihar.
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Speaking to the IndianExpress.com, District Magistrate of Kishanganj Animesh Kumar Parashar said, “Five children are dead in the accident and others have been sent to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital.”
According to Akram Niyaz, who visited the accident site later, the truck was on the wrong lane and the jeep driver could not see it coming in. He said the death toll could be more than ten as the condition of the injured are critical.
Wali Ahmad is Editor (Operations) of indianexpress.com. He writes on politics and occasionally curates the weekly column The Urdu Press. Wali has extensively covered the Seemanchal region on the borders of Bihar and West Bengal. He joined The Indian Express in 2013, and has been responsible for news operations on indianexpress.com. In over 15 years of online journalism, Wali has covered all the major national and international news events, including three Lok Sabha elections. He holds a Master's degree in journalism from the Aligarah Muslim University. He has previously worked with HindustanTimes.Com, NDTV.Com, Indiatoday.in.
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