10 injured as auto-rickshaw with school kids overturns in Ludhiana

At least 10 school kids got injured after their auto-rickshaw overturned when it was on its way to the board exam centre near police lines in Ludhiana's Model Town. The injured were rushed to the DMC Hospital.

Ludhiana (Punjab): Ten children on the way to exam centre in Ludhiana's Model Town were injured after the auto-rickshaw they were travelling in overturned near the police lines.

The accident took place when the auto-rickshaw was on its way to the exam centre in Model Town from SMD School in Jasiyya and it overturned.

During the incident, the auto-rickshaw driver has also been critically injured.

ASI Surjit Singh and ASI Manjeet Singh, who were stationed near Pavilion reached the spot and rushed the injured to DMC Hospital in their official Ertiga vehicle.

One of the parents of the injured children told reporters, "I had dropped off my child to school. It was the school's responsibility to drop the children to the exam centre in Model Town and bring them back."

When asked about who is at fault, he said, "It is the fault of the school as so many kids should not have been seated inside an auto-rickshaw."

ANI report

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