A 4-year-old girl has died after being run over by a bus from Nepal Secondary School in Devchuli.

According to the District Police Office, Sushma Paswan, a nursery student, died when she was hit by a school bus in Devchuli Municipality-1. She is a student of the same school.

While getting off the bus, she was hit by a reversing bus while trying to pick up a bag that had fallen. Police say the accident may have occurred because the bus driver did not see the child. Police have said that the body is being sent to Devchuli Municipal Hospital for postmortem.