UP: Train rams into school van, kills 5 children

In a horrific accident event, In Uttar Pradesh five school going children were killed today as a school van was hit by a Varanasi-bound passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Mau district.

In the accident, five children were killed while 8 others were injured when a train hit the school van at an unmanned railway crossing in Mau district’s Ranipur Area of Uttar Pradesh.

This horrific incident took place around 8 AM in the morning when the school van carrying school children was hit by Tamsa passenger train going to Varanasi from Azamgarh at Mahaso unmanned crossing in Ranipur area here.

Ak Shukla, a Superintendent of Police said that, five children were killed on the spot while eight others were injured in the incident.

The died children are yet to be identified by the officials. As per police reports, all of the casualties in the accident were were students of DD Convent School, Hajipur.

About this incident, Suresh Prabhu as a Railway Minister will make a suo motu statement in both Houses of Parliament on the accident.

Outside the Parliament house Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters, “Just now, there has been a railway accident. We want to make a statement in Parliament. The Railway Minister has given a notice and I spoke to both the presiding officers. The government wants to take the Opposition in confidence and inform the House”.



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