Narrow escape for 7 kids as bus skids off road

Indore: A major accident was averted after a private bus ferrying children from adjoining villages to a school in Ratlam skidded off the road into a small culvert on Tuesday morning. There were seven children in the bus who did not sustain any injury. Police said that the bus was ferrying children from Riyavan village and Jhatla towards their private school in Mavta when the accident took place at Bachodiya village under Kalukheda police station. The family members and villagers were angered by the accident and demanded immediate actions in the incident against the school authorities. A parent Jeevan Sisodiiya said that the vehicle also did not have a fitness certificate when they asked for it. Meanwhile, Ratlam SDM Siddharth Bahuguna said that the matter was being investigated but none of the children were injured.