COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said. The accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday near the town of Kotmale, about 86 miles east of Colombo, the capital, in a mountainous … Read more
The accident takes place near Kotmale, about 140km (86 miles) east of Colombo, in a mountainous area of central Sri Lanka. At least 21 people have been killed and many others injured when a bus carrying dozens of Buddhist pilgrims in central Sri Lanka careened off a cliff, according to authorities. The crash took place … Read more
CNN — At least two people were killed Friday after a small plane crashed onto a busy road and collided with a bus in São Paulo, southern Brazil, leaving charred aircraft parts strewn along the highway. The crash took place around 7:20 a.m. local time (5:20 a.m. ET) along Avenida Marquês in the coastal district … Read more
The driver lost control at high speed, veering off a bridge into the icy Indus river in northern Pakistan, according to local reports. At least 14 people have been confirmed killed and many more missing and presumed dead after a bus crashed into the Indus river in northern Pakistan, according to local authorities. The driver … Read more
Mississippi Highway Patrol said the incident took place on Interstate 20 near Bovina in Warren County. Seven people, including a six-year-old boy and his 16-year-old sister, were killed when a bus overturned east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey has said. They were identified by their mother. Authorities were working to identify the … Read more
Cinthya Carbajal/AFP/Getty Images Relatives of the passengers wait for news about their loved ones outside the Mariscal Hospital in Ayacucho, Peru, on July 16, 2024. CNN — At least 29 people are dead in Peru after a bus plummeted over 650 feet into a ravine on Tuesday while traveling from the capital Lima to the … Read more
Twenty others injured after bus veered off a cliff in the south-central Andes region of Ayacucho, police official says. A bus crash in Peru’s Andes mountains has killed at least 20 people, a local police colonel has told Peruvian media. Jhonny Rolando Valderrama, head of a highway protection division, told RPP radio that the crash … Read more
Collision in Uttar Pradesh state occurred when the bus heading to New Delhi slammed into the back of a tanker carrying milk. A bus crash in northern India has killed at least 18 people, including a child, in the latest deadly road accident on the country’s congested highways. The collision took place early on Wednesday … Read more
Nearly 40 people injured after a bus collided with an oil tanker on a highway in Helmand province, officials said. At least 21 people have been killed and 38 others injured after a bus collided with an oil tanker in the Gerashk district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, officials said. The crash on the Kandahar-Herat highway … Read more
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack and the motive for the shooting was unclear. Gunmen have attacked a bus near the town of Chilas in northern Pakistan, killing eight passengers and injuring nearly two dozen others, district and regional officials say. Muhammad Ali Johar, a spokesman for the regional government, said the attackers … Read more