India, Nov. 6 -- Six college girls fell off an overcrowded Haryana Roadways bus moments after they boarded it and were run over by its rear wheels at Pratap Nagar bus stand in Yamunanagar district on Thursday morning, police said.

The condition of two of them is stated to be serious, the police said, adding the accident occurred at 8am when the bus going from Paonta Sahib to New Delhi arrived at the bus stand that was packed with students waiting to head to their schools and colleges.

One of the victims, Archita, a third-semester BTech student from GMIT College and a resident of Pratap Nagar tehsil, said that as the bus arrived later than usual, a crowd tried to board it even before it had come to a halt. "Suddenly, instead of stopping,...