20 school students injured in bus mishap in south India

NEW DELHI, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 students were injured, six of them critical, when their school bus fell off the road into a deep culvert in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Monday.

According to local media reports, the mishap occurred in the state's Guntur district, when the driver lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a curve.

Following the incident, the injured were shifted to a government hospital.

Media reports quoted the police as saying that the bus was carrying 52 students accompanied by a school teacher when the accident occurred on the Srisailam-Macharla highway.

The victims from Mandadi and Uppalapadu villages were on their way to school.