Eight School Students Injured as Van Overturns

Nearly eight students of Delhi Public School were wounded, two of them seriously, as the van carrying them overturned after being hit by a minitruck in Kashmere Gate area in the morning.

The van was carrying 12 students of DPS, Mathura Road.

“’When the van was taking a U-turn near ISBT, a Tata 407 coming from the opposite direction collided with it. As a result, the van overturned,” a senior police official was quoted as saying by UNI.

He said that the minitruck was running at a high speed after breaking the traffic signal and that its driver was still absconding.

The injured have been admitted to the trauma centre of the All India

Institute of Medical Sciences. Further details were awaited.