Three teachers were killed and ten others injured when a school bus met with an accident on the Jharigaon-Chandahandi ghat road in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district on Sunday.
According to police sources, the bus driver lost control of the vehicle which skidded off the road and fell into a gorge. The bus was carrying students, teachers and staff of the Aurobindo Integral Education Centre schools from Raighar, Nabarangpur, Umerkote and Jharigaon to Chandahandi. They were travelling to Chandahandi to attend a district-level seminar.
The deceased were identified as a retired teacher Lalit Mohan Patnaik as well as two serving teachers, Niranjan Nayak and Rina Nayak.
According to sources, the bus was carrying 35 passengers. According to Subhakant Mishra, a passenger who sustained minor injuries, the driver lost control while trying to save a biker coming from the opposite direction.
The injured were rescued by personnel of the fire brigade from Jharigaon and admitted to the Jharigaon Community Health Centre and Nabarangpur district headquarter hospital.
