In a tragic incident, a Class 1 student died in Baghpat after being hit by a school van that had gone to drop him on Thursday morning.
The incident took place in Chandinagar police station area of Baghpat.
The student was identified as 6-year-old Ayush.
While reversing the van, the driver ran the vehicle over the child. The school staff immediately rushed the child to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
His parents were informed and the body was sent for post-mortem.
Chandinagar police said the child's parents and relatives staged a protest saying the school did not inform them immediately about the incident.
A case has been registered against the driver of the van under Section 304 (A) (causing death by negligent driving) of the Indian Penal Code. The van driver has been taken into custody. He will be produced in the court and sent to judicial custody.
Meanwhile in Banda, three out of seven friends who went to bathe in river Yamuna, were feared drowned.
The incident took place on Wednesday after Eid celebrations and the divers have been searching in the river Yamuna but so far they have not been able to trace out the victims.
Reports said that Ghaffar's 19-year-old son Hasan, Hanif's son Sahil, Mansoor alias Kallu's son Tanveer, along with friends Owais, Sofian, Hamza and Arbaaz, all of Majra Gausipur village under Chilla police station, went to the Yamuna on Wednesday afternoon after celebrating Eid. While bathing in the river, Hassan, Sahil and Tanveer challenged each other to swim across the river. All three started swimming together and after going a long way, they got tired and started drowning. Seeing them drowning, the friends bathing on the bank got scared and ran to the fishermen's and asked for help. The fishermen took a boat and started searching for the three in the river. The search went on for about two hours but the three boys were not found.
Station House Officer Anand Kumar launched a search for the three youths without success. The State Disaster Response Force was also called to join the search on Thursday.