AGRA, March 1 -- A seven-year-old girl who boarded a school bus outside a private school in Aligarh district on Saturday never reached her family waiting at home in the same district. The bus had crossed into neighbouring Kasganj district to drop off another student when Ananya slipped through its broken floor above the rear tyre and was crushed under the moving wheel. The driver has since been taken into custody and the vehicle, operating without a valid fitness certificate, has been seized.

Ananya, a student of kindergarten at Mount Dev International School in village Bhudia, was seated above the rear tyre when the decayed floor gave way. Her brother Yajat, a first standard student at the same school, witnessed the incident and raised ...