Fourteen children were injured after a school bus overturned into a roadside ditch in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday morning, prompting locals to break the windows and rescue those trapped inside.

Fourteen children were injured after a school bus overturned into a shallow ditch on the roadside here on Wednesday morning, police said. The bus was carrying 19 children when the accident occurred around 7 am under the Rohta police station area, Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Abhijit Kumar said.

Police reached the spot, took the injured children to hospital and informed their families, he said. Of the 14 injured children, two are undergoing treatment at a hospital, while the others received first aid. All the children are out of danger, Kumar said.
The bus driver has been taken into custody, and police are collecting evidence to ascertain the cause of the accident, he added. Locals broke the bus windows to rescue children trapped inside and helped take the injured to hospital. 
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