A 60 year-old man was crushed to death by a school bus near Vikramshila excavation site in Bihar's Bhagalpur district on Monday. All the 20 children of the school bus are safe and have been sent to their homes, Kahalgaon Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Dilnawaz Ahmad said.

The deceased has been identified as Prasadi Paswan (60), a resident of Kasri village of the district, he added. The incident occurred near Vikramshila excavation site under the jurisdiction of Antichak police station when the old man came under the wheels and died on the spot while the bus was moving in the reverse direction, Ahmad said.