Laaloo Posted April 16, 2008 Posted April 16, 2008 Press Trust of India Wednesday, April 16, 2008 (Bodeli) At least 44 students, including 32 girls, were killed when a bus carrying them fell into the 60-foot deep Narmada canal in Bodeli in Vadodara district on Wednesday morning. ''Forty-four bodies, most of them of children, have so far been fished out from the canal,'' DSP Vadodara (Rural) Amit Vishwkarama said. The rescue operations are on at the site amidst chaos as hundreds of people including parents and relatives of the victims gathered to find out about the students. Out of the 44 killed, 41 are students (32 girls and nine boys) while three adults include the driver and conductor. The accident took place at around 6.30 am when the driver of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation bus lost control and the vehicle broke the railings of the bridge on the canal on the right side and fell into it. The canal was filled up to 4.6 meters due to which the bus got submerged in the water and even the rescue team took a while to locate it, eyewitnesses said. People from the nearby villages started the rescue work after the accident. Jakir Hussain of the town said he along with his friends fished out bodies of 25 students. ''This is a humanitarian work for us and we do not think in terms of religion at the time of such mishap,'' he said. The students mainly belong to the nearby villages and were going to appear for their last examination paper in Bodeli, which is the taluka headquarters. Nineteen students of Bamrol village died in the accident while eight students of Patan Pittha also lost their lives. Sardar Sarovar Project authorities decided to immediately stop the supply of water to the Narmada main canal and brought the level of the water from 4.6 meters to 2.6 meters to help rescue operations, Chief Engineer of Project S Srinivas said. Three cranes were pressed into services to pull the bus (GJ-18-U 3677) out after the water level was reduced, district administration said. Four students were rescued alive from the canal and they are admitted to a hospital in Bodeli, official added. The officials said that they will continue the search operation till the dusk as they think that more bodies are likely to be found from the canal. Jayesh Patel, who lost his niece Sejal studying in class VII said, ''This is the worst ever accident I have seen in my entire life. Bodies of so many students have shocked me.'' Bodeli town and nearby villages remained closed due to the incident and exams were also cancelled in all the schools. Vadodara DSP Amit Vishwakarma said that the all the 44 bodies recovered so far have been identified and returned to their families after post-mortem. http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080046994&ch=4/16/2008%206:02:00%20PM (:(((
Laaloo Posted April 16, 2008 Author Posted April 16, 2008 32 girls are killed Im not sure if this is true, but the women population in INDIA has gone down a bit in the last couple of years.
PaiN_KiLLeR Posted April 18, 2008 Posted April 18, 2008 a very very depressing story. unfortunately this would demotivate the other villagers from sending their girls to school.
CC1981 Posted April 18, 2008 Posted April 18, 2008 Im not sure if this is true, but the women population in INDIA has gone down a bit in the last couple of years. Its been going down for over 3 decades and thats because Indian families by and large prefer boys. So much so that infant killings are rampant in India where parents kill their girl babies so they can re-conceive and have boys, thanks to the sexist nature of our culture and the evil institution of dowry. Ironically enough, the tribal people in India (Bhils, Gonds, etc) have the BEST sex-ratio in the whole nation and its not a coincidence that they have the most gender-equal society in India where women arnt patronised as 'weak and to be protected' or chattel to be traded on the dowry market.
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