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PARIS, France (AFP) — The bus fire in Kazakhstan in which 52 people were killed Thursday is among of the deadliest bus accidents in the world over the past five years. Here are some of the others. 2018 Peru: Fifty-two people die in January when a bus plunges 100 meters (330 feet) over a seaside cliff after colliding with a truck on a precarious stretch of road known as the “devil’s curve.” The accident is […]
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AFP) — Fifty-two people were killed Thursday when the bus they were traveling on caught fire in Kazakhstan, the central Asian nation’s emergency services ministry said in a statement. “On January 18 at 10:30 am (0430 GMT), a bus caught fire … 55 passengers and two drivers were on board. Five people who managed to escape are receiving medical assistance. The rest died on the spot,” the ministry said, without elaborating on the […]
Fourteen people were killed and more than 30 injured in a bus fire on Tuesday morning in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, local authorities said. The accident happened at around 07:00, when Bus No. 301 caught fire near a furniture mall in Helan County, Yinchuan City. The injured have been sent to hospital for treatment. The fire was soon extinguished. Local police rushed to the scene, and were investigating the cause of the incident. […]
