Girl left behind in UAE school bus

AJMAN: Ajman Police rescued a six-year-old Afghan girl who was left behind on her school bus by the driver and the supervisor.
The girl fell asleep on way to school and both the driver and supervisor failed to notice that she had not disembarked from the bus when dropping off the rest of the students at one of the private schools in Sharjah. The incident took place last Wednesday.
The girl was found terrified and in tears in the bus, which was parked in an industrial area of Ajman. Police received a call from a Sudanese man, HMA, who said he had spotted a girl in a school bus parked in an industrial area in Ajman at around 10am.
The police rushed to the scene of the incident and rescued the girl, who was taken to Khalifa Hospital to ensure she was all right and then contacted the child’s mother. The girl is safe and back home with her mother.
Police have arrested the Indian driver, who was identified as HKA., and the supervisor and the school management was interrogated. Investigations revealed that the supervisor did not notice the girl had failed to arrive for classes, although she was registered in the bus attendance sheet. The supervisor and the driver did not make sure that all the students had got off the bus, police said.
The driver, working with a private transport company in Dubai, lives in Ajman, and after making the school trip in the morning, went back to his residence to rest before returning to pick up the students and drop them home after school.