Hyderabad: The Masaipet mishap toll rose to 18 after 11-year-old Talla Vaishnavi B., succumbed to her injuries at Yashoda Hospital on Tuesday morning. She was very critical and was declared dead at 5.28 am. Meanwhile, Prashanth, 6, and Varun Goud, 7, are most critical while Sharath, 6, remains to be critical.
Vaishnavi, daughter of B. Rama and Saraojana, was a resident of Islampur of Toopran mandal of Medak district. According to the doctors, she had a severe head injury and was unconscious from the time she was admitted. She also had spleenic lacerations and suffered a cardiac arrest.
Hospital authorities said on Tuesday two children were fit to be discharged and six others, who are stable. Her body was shifted to the Gandhi Hospital and was later handed over to relatives after a post mortem. The hospital authorities on Tuesday in a bulletin said, two kids were fit for discharge, six kids who were stable were shifted to ward.
Sixteen persons comprising 14 school children, driver and the cleaner of the private school bus were killed and 20 students were injured when a passenger train hit their bus at an unmanned railway crossing in Masaipet village on July 24.
