Daijiworld Media Network - Karkala (SP)
Karkala, Jan 4: After a tourist mini bus transporting students of a school to Dharmasthala via Sringeri hit a tree, 11 people including the school head teacher were injured.
The vehicle was transporting students of Government Higher Primary School, Doddabbigere in Chennagiri taluk, Davanagere district, on educational tour. On Wednesday January 3 evening, the vehicle developed mechanical problems near the district border after which it went out of the driver's control and hit a roadside tree.
Out of 24 persons in the bus including teachers, 10 students and head teacher, Eshwarappa, were injured. All of them were treated at the taluk government hospital here as outpatients. A case about this accident was registered at the rural police station here.