At least 25 killed, 36 hurt in road accidents

Islamabad: At least 25 people have died and 36 injured in four road accidents on Saturday morning.The deadliest crash occurred in Mansehra, where a passenger bus travelling from Rawalpindi to Skardu plunged into a deep ravine killing 10 people and injuring 10 others at Gandian in Mansehra district.

At least 36 dead in Italy bus crash

ROME: A tour bus filled with Italian pilgrims plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy and smashed into several cars that had slowed in heavy traffic, killing at least 36 people, said police and rescuers.

Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic along the stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred last night, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio.

Nineteen dead in Thai bus smash: authorities

BANGKOK: Nineteen people were killed and 20 hurt Tuesday when a double decker coach collided with a truck in central Thailand and burst into flames, authorities said.

“Altogether there are 19 dead — 18 died at the scene and another one died at the hospital,” said an official from the national institute for emergency medicine in Bangkok, who asked not to be named.

She added that 20 people were injured in the early morning crash in central Saraburi province.

At least 14 dead, 36 injured in bus-tanker collision in Thane

At least 14 people were killed and 36 others injured in a collision between a private bus and a tanker at Medvan Khind on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway on Wednesday.

The collision between the private luxury bus and the tanker took place around 7 a.m., police said.

Resident Deputy Collector Manoj Gohad said rescue operations have already been launched.

Bus flips over in Mexico; 16 dead

MEXICO CITY: A bus apparently went out of control after a blowout and turned over, killing 16 people in central Hidalgo state, Mexican authorities said.

State attorney general's spokesman Fernando Hidalgo said the accident happened Sunday afternoon as a group of tourists was returning to Mexico City from a weekend trip to the thermal baths in the town of Santa Maria Amajac.

Two dead, 50 injured in train derailment near Arakkonam

Two passengers were killed and fifty others injured when a train derailed at Sitheri near Arakkonam this morning, railway sources said.

Nine coaches of the Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur Express bound for Yesvantpur derailed at about 0550 hours, they said.

Two passengers were killed in the mishap, while the injured were admitted to the hospitals by the rescue teams of the Southern Railway, they added.

Five dead, 53 hurt in Thai bus cliff plunge

BANGKOK: Five people died, including a seven-month-old baby and a Belgian woman, and 53 were injured when a Thai tour bus plummeted off a hillside in northern Thailand after its brakes failed, police said Monday.

Passengers said the coach had swerved several times on winding mountain roads, before it ploughed through a fence and down a steep ravine, according to local police in Phitsanulok province 380 kilometres (235 miles) from Bangkok.

Truck rams into slum, eight kids killed in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: In a tragic incident late on Tuesday night, eight children were killed and over a dozen injured when a speeding truck overturned at Nagla Patwari near the bypass in Aligarh, 335 km from Lucknow, police said.

The incident happened when the truck, loaded with bricks, got stuck in a pothole. The driver lost control, the truck turned turtle and then hurtled into a roadside slum in the village.

Punjab: Six policemen killed, 11 injured in road accident

Fatehgarh Sahib: Six police personnel, including a woman, were on Monday killed and eleven others sustained injuries in a road accident near village Lohari, 10 km from Fatehgarh Sahib, police said.

The mishap occurred when a jeep in which 17 policemen were travelling was hit by a truck near village Lohari, police said.