India, July 5 -- A school bus carrying over 35 students overturned into a roadside drainage ditch on Thursday morning in the Chandanapuri Ghat section of the Nashik-Pune highway, located in Sangamner taluka. The incident occurred around 9 am, leaving several students with minor injuries.

According to the Sangamner rural police, the accident involved one of three buses that routinely transport students from the plateau region to Chandneshwar Vidyalaya in Chandanapuri.

As part of the daily commute, the buses departed in the morning to pick up students. One of the buses lost control and veered off the road due to an unexpected oncoming vehicle and ongoing roadwork that had reduced traffic to a single lane.

Local residents and police offic...