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Two miss students were killed connected the spot portion 5 others were critically injured erstwhile a backstage schoolhouse van collided with an SUV adjacent Itawa town, astir 80 km from Kota, connected Saturday (November 1, 2025) morning, the constabulary said.
Itawa Deputy Superintendent of Police Shivam Joshi said the mishap took spot astatine astir 8 a.m. erstwhile the schoolhouse van, carrying betwixt 10 to 12 students from Gaita colony to a backstage schoolhouse successful Itawa, mislaid equilibrium adjacent the municipality and collided with an SUV going towards Bundi.
The collision was truthful terrible that some vehicles overturned. The constabulary serviceman said the eyewitnesses reported that the schoolhouse van mislaid its equilibrium aft a tyre burst.
The deceased miss students person been identified arsenic 15-year-old Tanu Dhakad and 8-year-old Parul Arya. Tanu was a Class 10 pupil and Parul was successful Class 4.
The constabulary said that the 5 critically injured students were admitted to New Medical College Hospital successful Kota.
The van operator and 1 idiosyncratic successful the SUV besides sustained injuries successful the mishap and person been admitted to a infirmary successful Itawa. However, the SUV operator fled from the country aft the accident.
Following the accident, section MLA Chetan Patel rushed to the infirmary and took banal of the injured and consoled the families who mislaid their loved ones.
The collision was truthful terrible that some vehicles overturned. The eyewitnesses reported that schoolhouse van mislaid its equilibrium aft a tyre burst, the constabulary said
