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(Eagle News) — Three people, including two minors, were killed and several others were hurt after the bus they were riding fell off a bridge in Leyte. The fatalities in the incident that saw a Philtranco Bus, with plate number ACA 9771, fall off a bridge in Tanauan at 11:45 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22, were identified as Wendell Simbajon, 15; Brian Noterte, 30; and Queenly Galagnara, 3. Authorities have yet to determine the cause […]
SHIMLA, India (AFP) — At least 30 people, including 27 children, were killed Monday in northern India when a school bus plunged into a deep ravine in the Himalayan foothills, police said. The bus carrying young students home in Himachal Pradesh state flew off a cliff near Nurpur, about 325 kilometers (200 miles) from the state capital Shimla, and crashed into a valley. “The bus rolled into 200 feet (60 meters) deep gorge, killing 27 […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided with a truck on a rural highway in Canada’s western Saskatchewan province, killing at least 14 people, local media said Saturday citing police. The Saskatoon Star Phoenix said 14 more were injured — including three critically — in Friday’s accident involving the Humboldt Broncos team bus. The bus was carrying 28 people including the driver. Police said the crash took place […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — At least 17 people have been killed and another 36 wounded after a bus carrying illegal immigrants hit a lighting pole in eastern Turkey and burst into flames, local media reported on Friday. The bus, which crashed late Thursday on the Igdir-Kars highway, was carrying nationals from Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Images in Turkish media showed smoke rising from the charred bus with its front smashed […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Twenty Myanmar migrant workers died early Friday as fire tore through a bus taking them from a Thai border town to Bangkok, officials said. It was not immediately clear how the blaze started on the bus — one of four travelling together to the Thai capital. But television footage showed a bus destroyed by fire which trapped many passengers inside. “The death toll is now 20, with three people injured,” […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — At least 18 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bus traveling in northeastern Thailand veered off the road and smashed into a tree, authorities said Thursday. The accident occured Wednesday evening in Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province with the double decker bus carrying around 50 people returning home from a holiday. “There are 18 people killed, of these 12 women and six men including one boy,” Suthep Ruenthawil, chief of […]
(Eagle News) — Hindi na nagawa pang maihatid ng isang bus drayber ang kaniyang mga pasahero matapos itong masawi nang madamay sa karambola sa Maharlika Highway Diversion Road sa Atimonan, Quezon nitong Martes. Ayon sa ulat, si Juan Manuel Vinas Bron III, 28, at drayber ng Philtranco bus, ang isa sa dalawang katao na nasawi sa insidente dakong alas 9 ng gabi. Patay din ang pasaherong si Lorenzano Salundagit Lesano, 52. Labinlima naman ang nasugatan. […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — A double-decker bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in southern Peru Wednesday, killing at least 44 people. The bus tumbled 80 meters (260 feet) down a jagged slope from the Pan-American highway — Peru’s main motorway — in the southern region of Arequipa. Arequipa police chief General Walter Ortiz “confirms 44 deaths,” the interior ministry said on its Twitter account, updating an earlier toll of 35. Ortiz said 45 […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Naghain ng petisyon ang mga bus operator kaugnay ng dagdag-pasahe, gayundin ng provisional hike, sakaling hindi pa maipatupad ang kanilang petisyon. Ang pitong pahinang joint petition ay inihain ng Southern Luzon Bus Operators Association, Nagkakaisang Samahan ng Nangangasiwa ng Panlalawigang Bus sa Pilipinas at ng Samahang Bus Transport Operators ng Pilipinas. Inihain nila ito sa Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), kasunod nang pagtaas ng presyo ng langis dahil […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong police said Sunday they were investigating a deadly bus accident that left 19 people dead and scores more injured, with the bus driver arrested for dangerous driving. The double-decker bus overturned Saturday evening near the town of Tai Po in the northern New Territories, flipping onto its side and appearing to smash into a lamppost. Nineteen people were killed and 65 people were injured, some critically, according to local police. […]
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AFP) — Eighteen people were killed and another 14 injured in the small west African state of Guinea-Bissau late Friday when a minibus collided with a truck, police and hospital sources said. One witness said the truck appeared to have been speeding when the driver lost control and collided head-on with the minibus near Bissauzinho, around 15 kilometres (15 miles) from the capital Bissau. Sources said the bus had been overloaded and that at least […]
(Eagle News) – Nakalinya na ring ipagbawal sa mga kalsada ang pagbiyahe ng mga luma at napabayaang mga truck at bus. Ito ay kasunod ng pagsisimula ng bagong taon at inaasahang pag-arangkada na rin ng jeepney modernization program. Ayon kay Department of Transportation (DOTr) Undersecretary for Road Transport and Infrastructure Thomas Orbos, kasalukuyan nang nagsasagawa ng dayalogo ang kagawaran at ng mga truck owner at operators ng mga bus. Iginiit ni Orbos na tulad sa […]
