Grief grips Faisalabad amid multiple funerals

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Grief grips Faisalabad amid multiple funerals

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Despair envelops Faisalabad amid funerals, one after another, of children killed in accident.

26 September,2011 09:32 pm

Painful details emerged about the circumstances surrounding the tragedy. The Bus was being driven by the conductor who did not have a driving license.The bus even did not have the required route permit, and in order to enter into the motorway, it took an alternate passage to avoid being checked.According to the latest report, 16 children have been buried, while the rest will soon leave painful memories behind for their unfortunate parents.On Monday, a school bus, carrying 105 children, three teachers, headmaster and a servant, on a trip to the salt mines resort skidded off the motorway and fell into a ditch. 32 children and Headmaster Muhammad Hafeez Anwar, and driver and conductor were killed in the accident while there were reports of injuries to the others. The children were from a Millat Grammar School, Faisalabad.One of the deceased children had been identified as Mehtab Sarwar, student of class 9. His body was been shifted to a DHQ Hospital in Chakwal, where other injured were also shifted.