Fourteen children were injured when a speeding private school bus overturned at Bahuli hamlet of Soharatgarh in Siddharthnagar on Monday morning.
With the help of local residents, the injured children were shifted to the community health centre in Soharatgarh for treatment.
Soon after learning about the accident, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath got in touch with the local administration and directed the officials to ensure best treatment to all the injured. He also asked the district magistrate and the district police chief to rush to the spot and take necessary action in the matter.
Reports said that the private bus attached with Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Siddharthnagar was going to collect the students on Monday morning.
According to local residents, there were 25 students in the bus when its driver suddenly lost control over the wheel and the bus overturned.
The locals rushed to the spot after hearing the screams of the students. They somehow took out all the students and found 14 of them injured.
Later they called the local police and ambulance and shifted the injured to Soharatgarh CHC where the doctors who attended on the children said their condition was out of danger.
Reports confirmed that Sub-Divisional Magistrate Anil Kumar, Circle Officer Sunil Kumar Singh, were the first to reach the spot followed by District Magistrate Deepak Meena and Superintendent of Police Vijay Dhul. They also went to the CHC to ensure best treatment to the injured.
Parents of the students admitted in the CHC told reporters that the bus driver was drunk at the time of the incident, and that they had made verbal complaints against him in the past.
District Magistrate Deepak Meena said if it was found after medical test that the driver was under the influence of alcohol,, requisite action would be taken against him.
Meena however said the parents never made any complaint against the driver with the district administration, adding that if they had submitted a written complaint against the driver in the school, strict action will be taken.
A case has been registered in this regard and further investigations are on.
Efforts are being made to nab the bus driver who escaped after the mishap.
Meanwhile in a separate road mishap, four persons were killed and five injured when a car hit a man on the road and then while fleeing collided with an auto-rickshaw in Roza area of Shahjahanpur.
The car hit the man near Duria village, killing him on the spot. After that while fleeing, the car hit an auto-rickshaw in Roza area killing three other occupants, Superintendent of Police in Shahjahanpur, S Chinappa said.
The injured were rushed to a hospital where their condition was stated to be stable.
Police said while Pappu (45) was killed in Duria village, the other three deceased were Ankit Babu (35), Rakhi (3) and Kunan (12).
Police have seized the car and are trying to arrest its driver who abandoned the vehicle and escaped.