Kasargod : On the National High ways near Mallangi, Bandiyod, about 15 students were injured after a private bus overturned on Thursday August 6.

It was said that the driver of the Icon bus plying from Talapady to Heroor in Kayyar lost control and the bus overturned. As soon as the accident occured, locals gathered at the spot and shifted the injured to hospitals in Uppala and Kumble. Most of them were students who were injured. The other injured, identified as Rashid, Reshma, Shreeja, Safira, Soumya, Sudhi, Nizam, Zainaba and Priyanka have been shifted to a hospital in Mangaluru.

Usually in the evenings many students after college hours travel in the bus .Following the accident, the Kasargod-Mangaluru national highway was blocked for about an hour. Kumble police arrived at the spot and registered a case.