Medak District bus-train collision

The Medak District bus-train collision took place on the morning of 24 July 2014 at Masyapet in the Medak district of Telangana state in India. A bus ferrying at least 40 children to school collided with the Nanded-Hyderabad train at an unmanned level crossing.^[1]

Sixteen students, aged between three and fourteen, the bus driver and the cleaner were killed in the accident.^[2] Twenty other children were taken to hospital in Kompally, near Hyderabad. Early reports said that the bus driver, Bhikshapati Goud, was on his cellphone at the time of the collision.^[3]

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao ordered officials to take care of the children and ensure they received the best possible medical treatment, and offered his condolences. However, it took some time for emergency services to arrive on the scene; local people attempted to rescue the victims in the meantime.^[4]

References

1. "Toll in Medak bus-train collision climbs to 18". Zee News India. July 29, 2014. Archived from the original on July 29, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
2. "14 schoolchildren crushed to death as train rams into bus in Medak". The Times of India. July 25, 2014. Archived from the original on August 17, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
3. "Train, bus collision kills 14 schoolkids in Telangana". Hindustan Times. July 24, 2014. Archived from the original on July 24, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
4. "India: School bus and train crash kills 18 children". BBC News. July 24, 2014. Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.