Master Stroke: Parents raise question on children's safety in school after recent incidents

Thirteen children on their way to school were killed today when a train rammed into their van at an unmanned railway crossing in Kushinagar, leaving blood-splattered bodies, water bottles and school bags strewn around.
Five others were injured as the Thawe-Kapatanganj passenger train hit the van carrying 25 people, mostly children from Divine Public School, at 7 am.
Local people who rushed to the level crossing gate at Behpurva, about 50 km from Gorakhpur, saw bodies of children, aged between 8 and 10 lying about.
The level crossing was described as `unmanned', with no barrier to stop road traffic. But a `gate mitra' (railway volunteer) was posted there.
Some eyewitnesses said the driver, who is among the injured, tried to speed across the level crossing even when onlookers tried to draw his attention to the approaching train.
One eyewitness said that the van then got stuck in the middle of the rail tracks.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was "deeply pained" over the accident action.
"As I was coming to you, I got the sad news from Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar about the train ramming into a school bus in which children were travelling (and that) many children have been killed, he said at a BJP meeting in poll-bound Karnataka.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi also expressed grief.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who reached Kushinagar to get a first-hand account, faced protests from the local people.
An angry crowd at the accident spot raised slogans against railway and local authorities. Some protesters squatted on the tracks demanding that railway personnel should be posted at the unmanned crossing to avoid such accidents.

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