School bus rams auto in #Ghaziabad, 12-yr-old dies

GHAZIABAD: A 12-year-old boy died and two others were critically injured in an accident involving a minibus and an auto in Muradnagar on Thursday. The accident happened on the Ravli-Surana road off NH-58.

According to police, the speeding minibus, belonging to SBN Public School, Ravli, crashed into the auto which was ferrying five persons. The auto driver’s son Ritik died in the crash. Ritik’s sister Dolly (11), and two passengers, Raju (35) and Naveen Kumar (23), sustained injuries.

The minibus was immediately impounded, but its driver managed to flee. All five school teachers on board escaped unhurt, said police.

Surana locals rushed the injured to a private hospital in Modinagar, where Ritik was declared dead on arrival. Dolly and Raju were referred to Yashoda Hospital in Nehru Nagar, after their conditions deteriorated.