SRINAGAR: Barely two days after the Kokernag tragedy, another mishap involving a school-bus left 23 children injured, nine of them seriously, in the frontier district of Kupwara in north Kashmir.
The accident occurred due to over-speeding, the police said, adding that a hunt was on for the driver, Prince Ahmad Sheikh, who fled from the scene in an injured condition.
According to the police, the vehicle skidded off the road outside the Trehgam town and plunged down a ravine.
It was carrying children home from the Army Goodwill School in Trehgam at around 2;30 p.m., reports said.
A large number of locals rushed to the scene of the accident and were shortly joined by police and army personnel in rescuing children trapped in the wrecked bus.
Heart-rending scenes were witnessed at the nearby primary health centre and the sub-district hospital in Kupwara
Nine of the wounded kids had been shifted to the sub-district hospital because of their serious condition.
They have been identified as Irfan Ahmad Lone, Iram Aziz, Zakir Ahmad Khan, Umar Farooq, Nazia Hassan, Imtiyaz Ahmad Shah, Shagufta Akhtar, and Masood Ahmad Lone.
According to the Block Medical Officer of the area, six children were critical, while the other were stable and under observation.
The civilian minibus was carrying 27 students to drop at their respective villages in and outside Trehgam.
District police and civil officers were overseeing the treatment of the children along with representatives of the army.
Governor NN Vohra, chief minister Omar Abdullah, minister for transport Chaudhary Ramzan and number of political leaders have expressed pain over the accident.
Abdullah has ordered swift and proper medical care for the injured children.
Nine school children had been killed in the Kokernag town of Anantnag in South Kashmir barely two days ago when a bus carrying them met with an accident.
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