Mumbai: Bus returning from picnic overturns, two schools students die

Mumbai, December 12: Two school students died and several were injured as a bus carrying them overturned near Mumbai Monday morning.

The bus carrying 48 students of a coaching class was returning from a picnic when the accident occurred in Khopoli in the Raigad district.

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Visuals from the accident site and a hospital showed students with hand and head injuries. Two teachers of the coaching institute at Mumbai's Chembur were also on board the bus returning from Lonavala.

According to reports, the bus overturned on the Old Mumbai-Pune highway around 4 am while descending the hills.

Further details are awaited.

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