UP: Bus-train collision kills 13 kids, ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh announced

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UP: Bus-train collision kills 13 kids, CM rushes to site
UP: Bus-train collision kills 13 kids, CM rushes to site

Kushinagar : At least 13 children have reportedly been killed in a bus-train collision at railway crossing in UP's Kushinagar.

The children, students of Divine Public School, were killed on the spot as train crashed into the bus on Thursday morning.

The van was carrying about 25 people with most of them as kids under the age of 10. The bus driver has also been killed in the accident.

Expressing condolences, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced an ex-gratia of Rs two lakh each to the deceased’s family and ordered an inquiry by the Gorakhpur commissioner.

Railway minister Piyush Goyal also announced an ex-gratia of Rs two lakh each for the kin of the deceased and tweeted that senior officials would probe the accident.

“It was unmanned level crossing gate at Behpurva, with Gate Mitra deployed there. He tried to stop but unfortunate incident happened at unmanned gate 45 near Dudhi station in Banaras division,” the spokesperson said in New Delhi.