The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Boy crushed under bus

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Boy crushed under bus

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INCONSOLABLE: A grieving H.S. Pramila, mother of Akshay Kumar, in Bangalore on Thursday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE: Another young life was lost on Thursday morning to the callousness of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) buses. Ten-year-old K. Akshay Kumar, a class IV student, was run over by the bus that dropped him at his school. Akshay studied at Kendriya Vidyalaya, near the Indian Institute of Science campus, which is within the Yeshwanthpur traffic police station limits.

At 8.30 a.m., Akshay alighted from a BMTC bus at Ullas Cross near Mariappanaplaya junction. He had walked only a few steps towards his school when he was knocked down by the bus and crushed under its rear wheels, the police said.

A nurse who was travelling in the same bus rushed the boy to K.C. General Hospital in an autorickshaw, where the doctors declared him brought dead. The hospital staff contacted the principal of Kendriya Vidyalaya.

Akshay had lost his father, Krishna Murthy, an ex-serviceman, only a few months ago, to a road accident in Bangalore. Akshay and his mother Pramila were residents of Chikkasandra near Bagalagunte, off Tumkur Road.

Devika, a teacher at the school, told The Hindu that the principal, vice-principal and Akshay's class teacher rushed to the hospital to identify the body. The principal later called Pramila to M.S. Ramaiah Hospital for autopsy, where Pramila wept inconsolably. Akshay was her only child. The Kendriya Vidyalaya will remain closed on Friday. Meanwhile, the Yeshwanthapur traffic police have seized the bus and arrested the driver, Lepakshi.

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