Euroweeklynews.com reports that at least 20 people were injured, five seriuosly and nine have been killed when a bus came off the road as it travelled downhill near Avila northwest of Madrid, trapping several passengers in the wreckage, emergency services said. It is not yet known what caused the accident, although early indications are it was travelling at excessive speed on a bend. Read article
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The BBC reports that nineteen people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a lorry in central Thailand, reports say. At least 20 more people were injured in the incident, which took place in Saraburi province early on Tuesday. The double-decker tour bus – which was travelling from Bangkok to Roi Et […]
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According to eturbonews.com, awo British tourists are among the victims when a light private helicopter has crashed in the Russian north about 150 kilometers east of Murmansk. The 5-seat Eurocopter EC120 Colibri helicopter was on a scheduled flight to the Lovozersky region in the northeast of the Kola Peninsula, a police source told RIA Novosti […]
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As reported by Itv.com, two people have died after a light aircraft came down in Leicestershire this evening. Police were called at 6.45pm to reports that a plane had crashed in fields in Fenny Drayton. Read Article
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According to xinhuanet.com, at least 10 people have been killed in a bus crash on their way to a religious gathering in southeast Brazil, local media reported on Saturday. The driver of a tourist bus lost control of the vehicle late Friday, as it was carrying 42 church members at the time of the crash […]
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Globaltimes.cn reports that eight people were killed and 19 others were injured after a tourist bus overturned and plunged into a valley in Yunnan Province on Sunday, local authorities said. Twenty-seven people were aboard the bus when it plummeted into a valley on Mengjing Road in the Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna at 12:40 pm, […]
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According to interfax.com.ua, seven people, including one child, have been killed, 22 injured as a result of a collision of a regular bus and a tourist coach with a Bulgarian number plate near the village of Volia-Liubytivska, Kovel district, Volyn region. The accident occurred in the morning of July 11, the injured people were taken […]
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Kyivpost.com reports that two Ukrainian citizens have been killed in a car accident on a highway near the town of Vyskov in the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported on its Web site referring to the Consulate of Ukraine in Brno. Read article
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Al Jazeera reports that at least 12 people are feared to have died after a two-storey hotel collapsed in the southern Indian city of Secunderabad on Monday. “Twelve people were killed and 18 injured when the City Light Hotel collapsed early this morning, the building owner’s son was among those killed.” private TV channel NDTV […]
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NBC News reports that ten people were killed Sunday when a seaplane crashed at the Soldotna Airport in Alaska, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Clint Johnson, chief of the NTSB in Anchorage, told NBC’s Alaska affiliate that all nine passengers and one pilot aboard the plane were killed after the it crashed, though […]
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