Al Jazeera reports that at least nine people have been killed after a small passenger plane with 27 people on board crashed shortly after take-off in Nigeria’s most populous city Lagos. The Associated Airlines plane was headed for Akure, a southwestern town about 225km away, with seven crew and 20 passengers, Aviation Ministry spokesman Joe Obi said on Thursday. He did not have details of the type of aircraft. “The plane couldn’t lift properly so it just came down,” Obi said. “Some persons are being rushed to hospital. A few dead bodies have been recovered, but there are survivors.” Read article
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NBC News reports that frantic members flocked to a North Carolina church Wednesday to learn whether their friends and relatives were among eight people killed and 14 others injured when a bus carrying elderly congregants overturned in eastern Tennessee. Eight of the injured — all of them described as senior citizens — were in critical […]
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Pakistantoday reports that at least two foreigners were killed while four injured when a jeep plunged into a deep ravine on Karakoram Highway near Gulmit on Monday. According to police sources, a Gilgit-bound jeep carrying tourists fell into a deep ravine after the driver lost control owing to a burst tyre. As a result, two […]
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Dailystar.co.lb reports that at least seventeen Lebanese including a number of children drowned on their way to Australia in a boat accident off the coast of Indonesia, a local official said Friday. “I only have confirmation that 17 people have died on the boat,” Ali Hussein, mukhtar of the northern village of Qabeet, where most […]
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NBC News reports that gunmen stormed a crowded shopping mall frequented by Westerners on Saturday in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi in an apparent terror attack. A witness said that gunmen armed with AK-47s and grenades told Muslims to stand up and leave and that non-Muslims would be targeted, according to The Associated Press. A […]
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According to trend.az, a passenger bus with Iranian tourists overturned in Turkish Kirikkale province, İnternet Haber news portal reported on Saturday. Two Iranian citizens were killed and around 27 people were injured as a result of the accident. Health state of the six injured is extremely serious. It was reported that the bus was heading […]
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According to armradio.com, five were killed and 10 wounded in a major car accident in Russia’s Krasnodar region at 2:40 a.m, RIA Novosti reports. The Mercedes van traveling from Sochi to Yerevan crashed into a track parked on the roadside. Probe into the details of the accident is underway. Read article
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According to itv.com, a British couple have been killed in a crash on holiday in America, according to reports. Paddy Heazell and his wife Julyan, said to be aged 77 and 74 and from Snape near Aldeburgh in Suffolk, are reported to have died after the van they were travelling in left off the road […]
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According to standard.co.uk, a search was underway for a small plane that ditched in the sea off Jersey in the Channel Islands. The UK-based Cessna crashed about five miles west of Jersey airport this morning. The light aircraft was heading for Jersey airport from Dinan in France, an airport spokesman said. Read article
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According to bangkokpost.com, a head-on collision between a van carrying 10 foreign tourists and an 18-wheel truck left two dead — a driver and a passenger — and nine others injured in Muang district on Sunday afternoon. The nationality of the dead passenger was not immediately known. The accident occurred in front of a PTT […]
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