India, Oct. 9 -- A total of ten including eight schoolchildren, a female attendant and a motorcyclist sustained injuries in a road accident in Uruli Kanchan on the Pune-Solapur Highway on Wednesday, police said.

The incident occurred around 2 pm when a two-wheeler suddenly came in front of the school bus, forcing the driver to apply brakes. A pickup truck loaded with steel rods, which was following the bus, rammed into it from behind. Subsequently, the truck also crashed into the pickup. The impact caused the steel rods from the pickup to pierce into the rear of the school bus, police said.

The children and the attendant suffered only minor scratches and bruises. They were taken to a private hospital for primary treatment and later disc...