20 killed as truck plunges down ravine in Philippines
September 18, 2019 | 09:42
Twenty people, including children, were killed on Tuesday (Sep 17) in the southern Philippines when the flatbed truck they were riding in plummeted into a ravine, police said.
12 dead, dozens missing in India boat accident
September 16, 2019 | 10:32
At least 12 people drowned and dozens were missing after a tour boat capsized on an Indian river on Sunday (Sep 15), police and local media reports said, as rescuers searched frantically for survivors.
1 dead, more than 30 injured after train and truck collide in Japan's Yokohama
September 06, 2019 | 08:46
One person died and at least 34 were injured after a truck and an express train carrying about 500 people collided in Japan's second-largest city of Yokohama on Thursday (Sep 5).
9 killed in Philippine air-ambulance crash
September 02, 2019 | 07:25
Nine people were killed when an air-ambulance plane crashed at a resort area near the Philippine capital on Sunday (Sep 1), sparking a fierce blaze and sending terrified locals fleeing, authorities said.
44 dead in India after bus plunges into gorge: Officials
June 21, 2019 | 09:22
At least 44 people were killed when a bus in India's mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh plunged into a gorge on Thursday (Jun 20), officials said.
12 killed in Indonesia bus crash after passenger argument
June 18, 2019 | 09:26
Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured in a traffic accident in Indonesia on Monday (Jun 17) after a bus passenger tried to wrest control of the steering wheel following an argument with the driver, police said.
7 killed as Hungarian boat carrying South Korean tourists capsizes on Danube
May 30, 2019 | 16:06
At least seven people were killed and nearly 20 were missing after a pleasure boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday (May 29), police and ambulance officials said.
Lawmakers call for tough drink-driving penalties
May 25, 2019 | 10:35
Lawmakers have mooted making drink-driving a criminal offence, whether they cause an accident or not.
Three killed in aircraft runway accident near Everest
April 15, 2019 | 11:01
A small plane veered off the runway and hit two helicopters while taking off near Mount Everest on Sunday (Apr 14), killing three people and injuring three, officials said.
Six killed as train derails, hits house in central China
April 13, 2019 | 09:31
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of six people in central China after a cargo train carrying aluminium ore hurtled off the tracks and crushed a house, local authorities said on Friday (Apr 12).
Ethiopian Airlines crash report ready: Foreign ministry
April 02, 2019 | 15:00
A preliminary report into the crash of a Boeing 737 Max in which 157 people died will be ready on Monday (Apr 1), the Ethiopian foreign ministry said.
At least 20 dead in Peru bus fire
April 01, 2019 | 16:34
At least 20 people were killed and about 10 injured Sunday night (Mar 31) in a bus fire at an illegal transport terminal in the Peruvian capital, emergency services said.
One dead, 10 missing after cargo ship sinks off China
January 03, 2019 | 13:00
BEIJING: At least one person died and 10 others were missing after a freighter sank off China's eastern coast on Wednesday (Jan 2), the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Speeding blamed for fatal train crash in Taiwan
November 27, 2018 | 09:17
Taiwan's government said Monday (Nov 26) that speeding was the main cause of a train derailment that killed 18 people last month in the first official report on the incident.
28 drown in India bus crash, many of them children
November 25, 2018 | 11:34
At least 28 people, many of them children, drowned on Saturday (Nov 24) after their bus plunged into a canal in India, police said, in the latest tragedy on the world's deadliest roads.
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