Kallar Kahar accident: School owner arrested

Millat School was temporarily sealed after the inquiry report blamed school administration for the accident.

FAISALABAD:
The owner of Faisalabad's Millat Grammar School, an Australian citizen was arrested in light of the inquiry report into the Kallar Kahar bus accident, Express 24/7 reported on Sunday.

As reported earlier, an over-loaded 72-seater bus, carrying 107 passengers overturned on the Lahore-Islamabad Motorway on September 26.

The passenger bus skidded at the accident-prone Kallar Kahar area. The bus was carrying 101 students and five staff members, who were on their way back from a school trip to Kallar Kahar and Khewra Salt Mines, widely-known as tourist destinations.

Millat School was temporarily sealed after the inquiry report blamed school administration for the accident.


However, parents of the students argued that closing down the school was affecting their children's education.

The school will be now supervised by the district government for some time.

In a meeting with the school's staff, EDO Education Sohaib Imran monitored arrangements for the school's reopening and directed that irrelevant people should not be allowed to enter the school.

The school will reopen from October 3, after it was unsealed by the district administration.

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