New Delhi: Three children have been killed and nine injured when a school bus fell into a canal near Thiruvanthapuram.
According to reports, there were 30 children in the bus, out of which 15 were rescued on time.
Nine injured children have been rushed to hospital.
Search and rescue operations by police and fire force personnel are continuing.
The mishap occurred at Channakankara, about 25 km from here, off a national highway, when the van was carrying the students back home through a narrow road along the banks of a branch canal of Parvathy Puthanar river.
The road had no sidewall. The exact cause of the accident was yet to be established but the van driver denied he was over speeding.
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has rushed to the spot.
Eyewitnesses said a major tragedy was averted as local people, familiar with the canal, plunged into rescue work instantly and brought ashore most of the children within minutes.
(With additional inputs from PTI)
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