India, Feb. 26 -- A six-year-old UKG student of Amity International School, Noida, was found inside a parked school bus on Thursday, hours after he failed to reach the school, triggering concern among parents and raising questions over transport safety protocols.

Details of the incident came to light after a message circulated in parents' WhatsApp groups, describing how the child had boarded the school bus in the morning but did not reach the campus and was later found in a bus parking yard in a remote part of Noida, around 25 km from the school.

According to the message, when the bus returned in the afternoon and the child did not disembark at his residential society, the family contacted the school and was informed that he had been ma...