The majority of private van operators resumed operations on Wednesday after a one-day strike but a few operators stuck to their stand causing hardship to parents and students.

Parents in the suburbs

On Monday, Ms Jayalakshmi of Ayanavaram had to take leave from work as the school van driver refused to pick up her daughter studying in Class I in a school at Korattur, 10 km away.

Hundreds of paren

It took almost 24 hours for the police to confirm who drove the ill-fated school van. But four-year-old Sobin and ten-year-old Hima have no doubts.

“It was Jeen chettan (Jiferson) who drove the van,

The death toll in the school van accident at Channankara near here rose to four with a five-year-old child succumbing to injuries today.

Preliminary investigations have found that the vehicle th

At least 11 schoolchildren received burn injuries when their van caught fire in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district on Saturday, officials said.

All the students, who are in the age group of 8-13 years