Genre: News > India

Aug 20, 2009: Eight primary school children sustain burn injuries, when the school bus they were traveling caught fire due to short circuit at Panvel in Navi Mumbai on Thursday morning.

 

The bus belonged to CKT high school.

 

Some of the children were admitted to National Burn Centre, while three critical children were shifted to Masani Hospital.

 

The children were from classes first to eighth.

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Background

Around 20 people were killed and several others injured when a bus plunged into Chambal river near Devri in Madhya Pradesh on June 1.

On May 21, five employees of software major Infosys had died, while 23 others wounded when a bus carrying them met accident in Karnataka's Belgaum.

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