22 St Xavier's College Ranchi students injured as bus overturns in Sikkim
The students of St Xavier's College in Jharkhand's Ranchi were on an excursion to Sikkim.
Team Careers360 | June 28, 2022 | 04:42 PM IST
GANGTOK: Twenty-two college students from Ranchi were injured when their bus overturned in East Sikkim on Tuesday, police said. The students of St Xavier's College in Jharkhand's Ranchi were on an excursion to Sikkim, they said. When they were returning to Siliguri in West Bengal on their way to Ranchi, their bus overturned at 7th Mile in Ranipool police station area, police said. The injured students were admitted to the Central Referral Hospital (CRH) at Tadong, they said.
State chief minister took to Twitter and said, "It has just been received that a bus carrying the children of St. Xavier's College Ranchi on an educational tour to Gangtok met with an accident near Rani Pul, near Gangtok. I have spoken to the Chief Minister of Sikkim PSTamangGolay ji. Arrangements are being made for proper treatment of the children."
अभी-अभी जानकारी मिली है कि शैक्षिक भ्रमण पर संत जेवियर कॉलेज राँची के बच्चों को गंगटोक ले जा रही एक बस गंगटोक के नजदीक, रानी पुल के पास हादसे का शिकार हो गयी। मैंने सिक्किम के मुख्यमंत्री @PSTamangGolay जी से बात की है। बच्चों के समुचित ईलाज की व्यवस्था की जा रही है। (1/2)
— Hemant Soren (@HemantSorenJMM) June 28, 2022
"I have instructed the RC to be ready to air lift the children as well. At present, due to the local bad weather, we are not able to air lift the children, so arrangements have been made for proper treatment there," the minister added.
(with inputs from PTI)
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