Telangana school bus mishap: Passing vehicles on the National Highway didn’t help

Hyderabad: Eyewitnesses complained that none of the vehicles passing by on the National Highway, parallel to the railway track, stopped to help the accident victims. Eyewitnesses said they had to force some of the trucks to stop and help the injured kids.

The accident took place on Thursday morning near Masaipet at an unmanned railway crossing when the Nanded-Secunderabad Passenger train rammed into a school bus. An eyewitness said, “We heard the cries of the children. One of them was thrown out of the bus.” Three cranes were brought to the site to move the bus and pull the children out.

“I pulled out one child, but he was already dead. I didn’t know what to do, so I just placed the body by the side of the road,” said Miller Raju. “The other child I pulled out was alive. He said his friend was not talking and that he was in pain,” he added.

Eyewitnesses also said that people in the vehicles on the highway did not bother to stop. “Some of the children informed us of the accident and we rushed there. Children were stuck inside. We called 108 and they responded quickly,” said G. Raju, a local. Some villagers forced a few trucks to stop and asked them to help extricate the children.