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Friday, May 07, 2004

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Army Public School bus kills four

By Our Staff Reporter

The mangled remains of one of the two-wheelers after it was hit by a school bus in the Capital on Thursday. Photo: Rajeev Bhatt

NEW DELHI, MAY 6. Four persons, including a young woman, were killed and two others injured when a rashly driven bus carrying about 40 students of Army Public School rammed into two motorcycles and a scooter waiting at a traffic signal on Simon Bolivar Marg at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi today. While the bus driver has been arrested, no student was reportedly injured.

The accident occurred around 2 p.m. when the bus was ferrying the students back home from Dhaula Kuan. According to the police, while negotiating a left turn from an intersection on Simon Bolivar Marg towards Sardar Patel Marg, the driver lost control and rammed the vehicle into two stationary motorcycles and a scooter before climbing on the pavement.

Six people riding on the two-wheelers were knocked down. Their vehicles were also completely damaged. The injured were rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital where four of them were declared dead on arrival, while the other two were stated to be in serious condition.

Meanwhile, the bus driver, Uday Raj, who is a Nayak in the Army, was arrested for rash and negligent driving causing death.

The deceased have been identified as Daya Nand (30), who was driving the scooter, Manushi Gautam (20), who was travelling on a motorcycle driven by her brother, Manish (22), Ravinder and Devender, who were on the other motorcycle.

Manish, who has sustained injuries all over his body, told the police that he was taking his sister, Manushi, a third-year Delhi University student, to Tagore School for her examinations when the incident occurred. His father, Sudheer Gautam, who is a resident of Shahdara in North-East Delhi, is an engineer with a private country.

Another injured, Mohan, said he was a helper with a Mahipalpur petrol pump and that the deceased, Daya Nand, a resident of Gurgaon in Haryana, worked there as a cashier.

The police said the other two deceased have been identified as Devender and Ravinder, also residents of Gurgaon. The police have registered a case and are investigating into the exact cause of accident.

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