YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — At least 15 people were killed in Myanmar after the bus they were travelling in plunged into a gorge, police and state media said Monday. The deadly accident happened in Bago region north of the commercial capital Yangon on Saturday evening. The bus was carrying 40 people when it hit a road sign and careered off the road plummeting 60 metres (200 feet), state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported. A […]
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Poe reiterates call for creation of transport safety board
(Eagle News)– Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday reiterated the need for the creation of a National Transportation Safety Board. Poe renewed her call after a bus fell off a bridge in Occidental Mindoro, resulting in the deaths of 19 people. According to the senator, the body would be in charge of looking into transportation-related incidents—whether on land, by sea, air, railways and pipeline systems—and determine their causes. In pushing for the creation of the board, Poe […]
Peru bus crash death toll rises to 52
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Rescuers recovered two more bodies Thursday from the scene of the crash after a bus plunged over a cliff in Peru, bringing the total death toll to 52. Lima police chief Victor Rucoba said there were no more bodies to recover, and that the focus now shifts to investigating the accident and determining its causes. The coach fell around 100 meters (330 feet) over a seaside cliff on Tuesday after a […]
Bus crash kills 28 in northern India: police
SHIMLA, India (AFP) — At least 28 people were killed Thursday after a bus plunged into a deep gorge in a Himalayan region of northern India popular with tourists, police said. The accident occurred around 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the hill resort of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh state, said police superintendent Soumiya Sambasivan. “(Twenty-eight) people have died and seven are injured. All the bodies have been identified,” she said. The bus was taking around 40 […]
CHED issues moratorium on field trips after tragic Tanay bus accident
By Jodi Bustos Eagle News Service QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) announced on Tuesday, February 21, through a social media post that it will issue a moratorium on field trips and educational tours in light of the Tanay bus accident that killed 15 students mostly from the Best Link College in Novaliches, Quezon City. “I will be asking the Commission en banc to immediately issue a directive to […]
14 college students on field trip, including bus driver, killed in bus crash in Tanay
(Eagle News) – At least 14 people, mostly students of Best Link College of the Philippines, were killed and dozens injured when a bus they were riding in lost its breaks and hit an electric post while on their way to a three-day teambuilding activity in Tanay, Rizal. What should have been a fun educational experience for the college students, turned into a nightmare as Bus 8 of Panda Bus Coach Transit rammed into a […]
33 dead in Taiwan’s worst-ever road accident
by Michelle Yun Eagle News Service TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Distraught relatives in Taiwan gathered to mourn loved ones on Tuesday after a bus carrying elderly local tourists flipped on its side and left 33 dead in one of the island’s worst-ever road accidents. The group of 44 had been returning from a trip to see seasonal cherry blossoms at a farm in central Taichung region when their bus veered off a highway on […]
Bus crash kills 14 on ski tour
A bus carrying participants in a ski tour crashed Friday (January 15) morning in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture, killing 14 people and injuring another 27. Japanese chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said that the latest information was that of the 41 people on board, no one escaped unharmed. “We have received information that of the people on the bus 14 people have been killed and 27 others were injured,” Suga said. Suga said that there would […]
School bus crash in Egypt kills 16 – state news
(Reuters) — At least 16 people, mostly children, were killed on Wednesday (November 5) when a school bus crashed into three other vehicles on a desert road in the Nile Deltanorth of Cairo, state television said. Photos published online by privately-owned news outlets showed the bus engulfed in flames and later reduced to a charred metal frame, suggesting many of the victims were burned alive. Eighteen people were also wounded in the crash and transported to hospital, a local […]
44 injured in road accident involving 3 buses along Commonwealth Avenue
At least 44 persons were injured in a road accident involving three passenger buses along Commonwealth Avenue, in Quezon City, Saturday morning (March 22) The accident happened at around 6 a.m. The injured were rushed to the East Avenue Medical Center. Most of them were passengers of the Nova Auto Transport Bus, while the others are passengers of Safeway Bus. In a radio report of DZMM, the Nova Auto Bus bound for Baclaran was allegedly […]
