Two students killed, several injured as school buses collide in Uttar Pradesh

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Two students, a brother and a sister were killed and several others injured severely after two school buses collide here, police said on Friday.

The deceased were identified as Sameer (12) and his sister Maha (10), both students of GD Goenka Public school, they said.

While Sameer studied in Class 6, Maha was a Class 4 student. They were only two children of their parents.

Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan visited the family of the victims to offer his condolences.

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He also visited the hospitals in Meerut and Muzaffarnagar where the injured are admitted.

Police said an FIR has been lodged against Deepak Kumar, the bus driver of Rabindranath Public school, on the complaint of the principal of GD Goenka Public school Sulekha Singh.

Kumar has been booked for negligence and rash driving and he has been taken into custody, they said.

The road accident took place on Thursday

Hundreds of people gathered to pay their last respects when the bodies of the deceased students reached their native Dadhedu village in the district.

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