The bus crashed into the lorry while attempting to avoid a motorcycle rider.

The bus crashed into the lorry while attempting to avoid a motorcycle rider.

The bus crashed into the lorry while attempting to avoid a motorcycle rider.

Alappuzha: Twenty-two people, including 8 school students, were injured in an accident when a private bus collided with a lorry in Kalarcode, Cherthala, around 4.30 pm on Wednesday. 

The bus crashed into the lorry while attempting to avoid a motorcycle rider, sources said. All 22 injured individuals are currently under treatment in Taluk Hospital.

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This comes just weeks after five first-year MBBS students from TD Medical College, Vandanam, lost their lives when their car collided with a KSRTC Fast Passenger bus at Kalarkode-Changanassery Junction.