Calcutta, Aug. 9: A Class V student of Pratt Memorial School died under the wheels of a bus this morning after it knocked down her father’s motorbike.

Eleven-year-old Manisha and her father Narsingh Jaiswal were on their way to Thanthania Kali temple, not far from their Nirmal Chandra Street home, around 8.35.

“The bike was headed north. The private bus on route 234/1 was coming from the opposite direction when the collision occurred,” said an eyewitness.

The accident took place in front of College Street Mar- ket where work on the Barnaparichay book mall is in progress.

According to eyewitnesses, the wheels of the motorcycle skidded in slush. Both Narsingh and Manisha were thrown off the bike as the bus rammed into it, crushing the girl under its wheels.

Neither Manisha nor her father had helmets on.

An officer of Jorasanko police station said the father escaped with “minor” arm injuries.

But Manisha, the only child of businessman Narsingh, who runs an electronics goods shop in Chandni Chowk, and Dolly, a homemaker, was “declared dead when she was taken to Calcutta Medical College and Hospital”.

After the accident, local residents attacked the bus with stones and bricks, but the driver fled.

“Everyone is shocked. I can’t bear to face her parents,” said one of Manisha’s uncles as relatives and friends gathered in front of the house.

In another accident early this morning on Durgapur Bridge near Chetla, two persons were seriously injured in a head-on collision between a private car and a taxi.

The driver of the car, Angshu Chauhan, and the cabbie, Jagnarayan Singh, were admitted to SSKM hospital.

Chauhan was later shifted to a nursing home.