Muscat: A kindergarten student of Indian School Darsait (ISD) was left alone in the bus after all other children got down.
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Luckily, the child was noticed by the bus driver while moving towards Wadi Kabir and he took him out. “It was a near miss. The child was asleep in the bus. The driver spotted him and brought him back to the school. The incident proves that the transport system being managed by the school is working well,” Wilson George, chairman of the Indian School Board of Directors, told the Times of Oman.
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According to sources, the child boarded the bus at Ruwi but he went asleep and the caretaker of the bus failed to notice him.
“It’s a small incident. The child is okay,” the school principal said.
Meanwhile, the bus operator, officially running the transport system for the school, said the child was found when the driver was returning to the parking lot.