41 School Children And 3 Adults Killed In A Canal; Baroda Bishop Condoles The Tragedy

NEW DELHI, APR. 16, 2008, 16.30 Hrs (CBCI News):

41 school children and 3 teachers were drowned in Narmada canal at Bodeli village, near Baroda in Gujarat, as the bus carrying them plunged into canal water.

Bishop of Baroda Godfrey De Rozario has condoled the death of “innocent children” and assured “support of prayers for the bereaved families.”

“Words cannot express adequately our sorrow and shock at the pain of the children and their teachers and the loss of those who have lost a loved one,” added Bishop Rozario.

Rather recently constructed Narmada canal is about 60 feet deep at the place of the accident.

Most of the victims were school children, many of them girls, who were traveling in the bus. The children belonged to different local schools in the area.

Both the bus driver and the conductor also died in the tragic accident.

Most of the bodies of the drowned and the mangled bus have been recovered from the canal.