After Aligarh, 9-yr-old Agra girl slips through broken bus floor, dies
Agra, March 11 -- Much like the death of a seven-year-old girl who fell through the broken floor of a private school bus in Aligarh on February 28, a nine-year-old girl met the same tragic death in the Etmadpur area of Agra, while returning from school on Wednesday.
Aditya Singh, additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP), cyber law, law and order and Agra West, said, "The floor of the school bus was broken and nine-year-old girl Naina slipped through the floor and was crushed to death under wheels of the bus. Family members said that the girl was a student of Class 1 at RBS School in Kuberpur area of Agra district.
"The driver escaped from the spot with the bus and is being searched for. The fitness of the bus and validity of documents with regard to the bus and driver both, are to be verified once the driver is nabbed and the bus is seized.
"The body of the girl has been sent for a post-mortem examination and an FIR is being registered against the school owners, management and the driver on the complaint lodged by the family members. Action is to follow with the arrest of the accused and seizure of the bus," he added.
The school bus belonged to RBS School, a private school in Bhagupur village, near Kuberpur town, in Etmadpur area, on the outskirts of Agra city. When the police visited the school to seize the bus, they were unable to locate the bus.
The deceased girl was a resident of Nagla Lale in Etmadpur area of Agra district. The tragic accident took place on Bans Biharipur Road when the bus encountered a speed breaker and the girl lost her balance due to the jerk and slipped through the broken floor.
The incident took place just 10 days after a similar tragic end of seven-year-old girl, Ananya, in Aligarh district, on February 28. Ananya, a student of kindergarten at Mount International School in village Bhudia in Aligarh, was seated above the rear tyre when the decayed floor gave way.
Her brother Yajat, a first standard student in the same school, witnessed the incident and raised an alarm. The bus halted, but Ananya was critically injured. The driver and the owner of the school, operating the bus without a valid fitness certificate, were arrested.
A case under section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), of culpable homicide, was registered against the bus driver and school management at Gangiri police station in Aligarh on March 1....
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