THREE KIDS DIED AS SCHOOL VAN PLUNGES IN TO CANAL

                   THREE KIDS DIED AS SCHOOL VAN



                                 PLUNGES IN TO CANAL

Three children of Jyothinilayam school were feared dead after the school van carrying around 30 school children plunged in to a river after losing control in Channamkara, Katinamkulam on Monday,26th September,2011. Evening. There are unconfirmed reports that 20 children were saved. The school bus of Jyothinilayam School in Kazhakootam fell into the Parvathi Puthanar. Driver Vipin was rescued. It is also said that majority of the students have been rescued and rushed to the nearby hospitals.

The accident took place about 25 km from here when the bus was carrying the students back home.All the students of the Jyothi Nilayam School near here were aged below 12 years, said Nedumangad constituency legislator Palode Ravi.'The van has been pulled out of the canal and all those taken out have been moved to the hospital ' said the legislator.He said that locals jumped into the canal rescued many children. Police and fire brigade teams are conducting salvage and rescue operations.At least three children died and one child was in a critical condition While most of the children were rescued by local people, two boys and a girl, all aged below 12, lost their lives as the van taking them home through a narrow road along the banks of a branch canal of Parvathy Puthanar river plunged into it at Channankara, about 25 km from Thiruvananthapuram The condition of all the children, except one, was stable, sources said. Initial reports said four children were missing, but police said no complaint of missing children had been received. Ten rescued children were admitted to the government SAT Hospital and six in Missions Hospital at Kazhakoottam.
Before the accident, two children had alighted from the van at previous stops and four others had been taken home by their parents. The children were from Jyothinilayam school in Kazhakoottam on the city outskirts. However, rescue operations are still on and Naval divers from Kochi have also joined the team. The road on which the van was travelling had no sidewall. The exact cause of the accident was yet to be established but the driver of the van denied over speeding. This was the second accident in the state capital involving school children within
                                                                                 Prof. John Kurakar