BENGALURU: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi said he was "deeply pained" over the incident in which 13 children were killed and eight others injured when a train rammed into their school van at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh's
Kushinagar area on Thursday.
Interacting with BJP leaders, including the party's candidates, elected members and office-bearers in poll-bound
Karnataka, through his mobile application,
Modi said the Uttar Pradesh government and Railway department would take necessary action.
Modi said he was "deeply pained" over the incident.
"As I was coming amid you, I got sad news from Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar about a train ramming into a school bus in which children were travelling, many children are killed."
"It's a very sad news that I got as I came here," he said.
"Uttar Pradesh government and railway department will take necessary action," the Prime Minister added.
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