Overview
- A school bus carrying roughly 50 children overturned near Kondhwad village in Ahilyanagar on Saturday, injuring about 10–15 students and leaving one child in critical condition.
- Local residents, police and rescue teams reached the scene quickly and the injured were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment.
- Video shared by news outlets shows the bus flipped on its side with bystanders at the scene and has circulated widely on social media.
- Police have launched an investigation to determine the cause of the crash and officials say it is too early to rule out driver error, road conditions or weather as factors.
- The crash follows a fatal tree collapse onto a school bus in Chembur earlier this week and comes while the IMD has issued a red alert for heavy rain through July 6, prompting official helplines and renewed scrutiny of school transport and storm preparedness.