Girl, eight, only survivor of bus crash that kills 45 Easter pilgrims on South Africa’s deadly roads
Mmamatlakala, South Africa AP An eight-year-old girl was the lone survivor after a bus full of pilgrims making their way to a popular Easter festival in rural South Africa slammed into a bridge on a mountain pass and plunged more than 150 feet into a ravine before bursting into flames, killing all 45 others onboard. […]
South Africa bus crash kills 45 Easter pilgrims, Transport Ministry says
Reuters A bus crash in South Africa’s northern province of Limpopo resulted in 45 deaths and one serious injury, South Africa’s Department of Transport said on Thursday. The driver lost control and collided with barriers on a bridge near Mamatlakala, causing the bus to go over the bridge and hit the ground, catching fire, according […]
Driver may have fallen ill before fatal Venice bus crash
Venice, Italy Reuters Italian authorities were investigating on Wednesday the cause of the horrific crash of a bus carrying foreign tourists on the outskirts of Venice which killed 21 people including several children and injured 15 others. The electric bus crashed through the guardrail and off an overpass late on Tuesday in the Mestre district, […]
Australia mourns 10 wedding guests killed in bus accident
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia on Tuesday mourned the 10 people who were killed when a chartered bus carrying wedding guests rolled over at a roundabout, the country’s worst bus accident in three decades. Residents placed flowers near the crash site and gathered for a candlelight vigil at a church in the rural Hunter region in New […]
Bus accident kills 10 wedding guests in Australia
Updated: 12:40pm (AEST)Sydney, Australia Reuters At least 10 people died and 25 were injured after a chartered bus carrying wedding guests rolled off a ramp at a roundabout in Australia’s New South Wales state, police said on Monday. The accident occurred around 11:30pm on Sunday near the town of Greta about 180 kilometres north-west of […]
At least 10 dead, 55 injured as bus of Hindu pilgrims falls into gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir
Srinagar, IndiaAP A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to a shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir skidded off a highway bridge into a Himalayan gorge Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55, police said. The bus was on the way to Katra town from the northern state of Punjab’s Amritsar city when it fell into the […]
Mexico bus plunges off cliff, at least 18 die
Mexico City, MexicoReuters At least 18 people were killed and 33 injured when a bus fell off a cliff in western Mexico, local authorities said Sunday. Emergency personnel work on the site where a bus carrying tourists travelling to Guayabitos overturned, in Compostela, Nayarit state, Mexico in this handout image obtained from social media on […]
At least 39 migrants die in bus crash off Panama cliff; dozens of migrants missing off Libyan coast
Panama City Reuters At least 39 have died in Panama after a bus carrying more than 60 migrants fell off a cliff early on Wednesday, the country’s migration authorities said, marking the worst migration accident in the Central American country’s history. The bus, carrying migrants who had travelled through the Darien Gap, a dangerous stretch […]
Protester dies in Lima as Peru’s political crisis continues
Reuters A man in Peru’s capital Lima died on Saturday and others were hospitalized as nationwide clashes between protesters and police continued in the eighth week of the South American country’s political crisis. The death of Victor Santisteban Yacsavilca, 55, brings to 58 the nationwide toll in the protests that began in early December after […]
Bus crash in Croatia leaves 12 Polish pilgrims dead, 32 injured
Varazdin, Croatia Reuters Twelve people were killed in Croatia on Saturday when a Polish bus filled with religious pilgrims slipped off a road and crashed near Varazdin, authorities said. Thirty-two people were injured in the crash which happened at 5:40am on the highway between Varazdin, in north-west Croatia, and capital Zagreb. Rescuers work as a […]