Jaipur, Aug 28 (PTI) A school bus overturned while crossing a flooded drain in a village here on Wednesday morning, prompting the locals and police to launch a rescue operation, officials said.

The police and local villagers rescued all the nine students travelling in the bus and sent them home safely, they added.

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Rohit Sankhla, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kotputli-Behror, said the accident took place when the bus of Narayani International School located in Taskola was ferrying nine children to the school.

When the bus was crossing a drain near Chandoli village of the Kotputli area, it suddenly went out of control and overturned, he said.

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None of the children suffered any injuries and were sent home safely, the DSP said.

The bus was later pulled out of the water with the help of a JCB, he added.

The DSP said no case has been registered by anyone in this regard so far.

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