The Udupi district police said that the private bus plying on the Byndoor-Kundapur route crashed into the Maruti Omni school van a few metres away from the Don Bosco School. There were a total of 18 children and three adults in the school van. (Source: Express photo)Eight school children were killed and 12 persons injured, including the driver of a mini van and his school teacher wife, after a private bus collided with a school van on NH 66 in the coastal Karnataka district of Udupi on Tuesday morning. Six of the eight school students dead are girls. The driver and conductor of the private bus were arrested by police.

Source: Indian Express June 21, 2016 07:20 UTC