By Bernama,
New Delhi : 38 school children and the bus conductor have been killed after an Indian transport bus fell into a main irrigation canal in Gujarat state early Wednesday, XINHUA reports Wednesday.
Five more were rescued and admitted at the Vadodara civil hospital.
Most of the children, aged between 8 and 10, were on their way for an examination when the bus carrying approximately 50 school children, crashed at about 6 a.m, 70km from Vadodara, a district in the east part of Gujarat.
Indian media reported that locals recovered nine bodies while the rest were removed with the help of fire brigade personnel, as many bodies had floated downstream away from the accident site.