MP bus tragedy: 18-year-old schoolgirl jumped into canal and saved two lives

A schoolgirl’s heroism saved two of the only six persons who survived the Sidhi bus tragedy on Tuesday morning. Shivrani Lunia, 18, lives in a canalside hut in Sarda village and saw the bus plunge into the water. She didn’t hesitate even a second and dived into the 40-ft-deep canal — as it turned out, seconds are what separated life and death. She saved lives of an elderly passenger and a woman from the canal. Local MP Riti Pathak brought her before mediapersons and said the teenager rescued a woman and elderly man. Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted his praise: “My pranam to daughter Shivrani’s bravery. She didn’t care for her life and saved two persons. The state is proud of her.”