At least 22 students were injured, four of them seriously, when a bus by which they were travelling met with an accident near Boinda, 35 km from here, on Sunday morning.
According to reports, the students of Jharabarana school at Kishorenagar in Athamallik of Angul district were on a picnic trip to Kapilas in Dhenkanal district by a private bus when the bus fell into a roadside ditch after the driver lost control of the vehicle.
local people came to the rescue of the students and got the injured ones admitted to the local Government hospital, which later referred four of them to the Angul District Headquarters Hospital as their conditions became critical.