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Thirteen school students died when the van they were travelling in was hit by a train at an unmanned crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Khushinagar district on Thursday morning, an official said.
Eight children were injured and taken hospital, said the official, adding there were 22 children in the vehicle.
The children, students of Divine Public School, were killed on the spot when Thawe-Kapatanganj passenger train (55075) crashed into the van at Behpurva, said Ved Prakash, spokesperson for Railways.
The bus driver also was killed in the accident, a police officer said.
Expressing grief over the accident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was ‘extremely saddened ‘ and that the UP government and railway department would take appropriate action.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced an ex-gratia of Rs two lakh each to the



deceased’s family and ordered an inquiry by the Gorakhpur commissioner.
“It was unmanned level crossing gate at Behpurva, with Gate Mitra deployed there. He tried to stop but unfortunate incident happened at unmanned gate 45 near Dudhi station in Banaras division,” the spokesperson said in New Delhi.
An accident relief medical train from Gorakhpur has been dispatched to the site, he said. Railway minister Piyush Goyal also announced an ex-gratia of Rs two lakh each for the kin of the deceased and tweeted that senior officials would probe the accident.
This is the second tragic incident this month involving schoolchildren. Twenty-three children were among 30 killed when a private school bus ferrying them home veered off the road and plunged into a 200-foot-deep gorge at Malakwal in Nurpur in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh on April 9.
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