NEW DELHI , India ( CNN ) -- A government school in southern India has tested pupils ' karate skills by running over their outstretched arms with a motorcycle . K. Devarajan , the director of elementary education in Tamil Nadu state , told CNN that the event , held recently , was organized with the consent of parents . State education authorities have now asked schools not to carry out such activities because they violate safety guidelines , which he claimed were already in place in state educational institutions . Devarajan said officers visited the school after learning about the controversial show . Newspaper pictures Tuesday showed a motorcyclist driving over the limbs of a row of schoolchildren lying with their faces down in the state 's Villupuram district . It also showed smiling adults standing behind the young children . The act aimed to show the strength the students had gained from their karate classes , Devarajan said . Nobody was injured , said P. Perumalsamy , a senior state education official . The students involved were aged between six and 13 , he added .
Indian schoolchildren run over by motorcycle in karate exercise . Officials says parents approved of test of children 's karate skills . Comment: