Representative image of a wall.
Credit: PTI File Photo
Palghar: A 19-year-old woman was killed when a portion of the compound wall of a school collapsed on her after a bus hit it in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.
The incident took place at around 7 am on Tuesday in Virar area.
The woman had gone to drop her younger brother at the school for a picnic, an official from Virar police station said.
After seeing off her brother, while the woman was standing in the premises of the school, a private bus which was being reversed hit its compound wall.
A part of the compound wall collapsed on the victim, who received severe injuries, the official said and added that the woman was rushed to a local hospital where she died during treatment.
The body was sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, the police said.
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