Thrissur: Thirteen students and two teachers of the Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan School at Poochetty in Thrissur district were injured when their school bus collided with a truck at Mannuthy on Thursday. None of the injuries were of a serious nature, said the school authorities.
The bus was ferrying the occupants to the school in the morning when the incident happened.
The injured were taken to the district hospital and were discharged after giving first-aid. Some of them were subjected to detailed check-ups as they complained of pain in the chest and head.
The panicked parents and relatives of the students had flocked to the hospital on hearing about the accident. The truck which was plying at a high speed had hit the bus as it entered the highway from a by-lane, the police said.