Violence Erupts; Children Injured in Road Accident in India
- 14 years ago
On Monday, an irate mob set on fire a school van and damaged a truck in India's Kanpur City. It happened following a road accident which critically injured three schoolchildren.
Sources say the children were returning home when a speeding truck collided with a school van.
An enraged crowd of locals gathered at the spot and started pelting both vehicles with stones, and set the school van on fire.
The drivers of both vehicles tried to escape, but the furious mob attacked them until the police arrived.
The residents as well as the relatives of the wounded blamed the traffic of heavy vehicles.
Police have arrested drivers of both the vehicles and filed a case against them.
Sources say the children were returning home when a speeding truck collided with a school van.
An enraged crowd of locals gathered at the spot and started pelting both vehicles with stones, and set the school van on fire.
The drivers of both vehicles tried to escape, but the furious mob attacked them until the police arrived.
The residents as well as the relatives of the wounded blamed the traffic of heavy vehicles.
Police have arrested drivers of both the vehicles and filed a case against them.