Deadly Bus Crashes Make Travel Risky in Peru
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LIMA, Peru  - Accountant Lucia Puelles, lies in  agony in a hospital bed, her legs destroyed by a bus crash that  should have been a straightforward journey to take her on  vacation to Peru's southern Andes.
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"During this ordeal, you have the solidarity of the French people"  A bus carrying Polish pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep mountain road, crashed into a river bed and burst into flames Sunday, killing 24 people, authorities said.Another 20 people were seriously injured in the wreck, which occurred at about 9:30 a.m. near the village of Vizille, not far from Grenoble, officials said.Firefighters said the bus had 51 people on board, including the driver, and plowed through a barrier before it plunged about 65 feet onto the banks of the La Romanche River, firefighters said. Read more
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A government flight that linked Peru's isolated jungle communities crashed in a storm, officials said, and at least five survivors among the 20 people on board were rescued Friday after helicopters overhead spotted a fire they had set
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ELOXOCHITLAN, Mexico -- Rescuers digging through mud and rocks have recovered at least 14 bodies from a bus buried on a rural road after a mountainside gave way, officials said Thursday.
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Some 600 people in Peru become sick after visiting the crash area of what is said to be a meteorite.
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Twenty-six Polish  pilgrims died on Sunday when their coach crashed off a mountain  road at a notorious accident blackspot in the French Alps and  burst into flames, police and officials said.
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A passenger bus careened off a mountain road in Peru and plunged 165 feet into a jungle river, killing 49 people and injuring 15 others, police said Monday.
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GRENOBLE, France -- A bus carrying Polish Catholic pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a mountain road, crashed into a river bank and burst into flames Sunday, killing 26 people and injuring 14, authorities said. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his French counterpart,...
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Five passengers were killed and around  30 injured when their bus flipped over after tearing through  the central reservation of a motorway in the northern Spanish  province of Burgos, officials said on Sunday.
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A driver lost control of a bus in a heavy rainstorm in Peru's mountains and the vehicle plunged 165 feet into a river, killing 49 people on board and injuring 15, police said.
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Honduran gangs had killed before, leaving dismembered bodies and grisly messages in defiance of President Ricardo Maduro's no-tolerance campaign against them. But when gunmen shot up a bus Thursday night, leaving 22 adults and six children dead along with a promise of more violence, they raised the stakes in what increasingly looks like a war between authorities and Central America's criminal underworld.
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Forty passengers died and 19 others were hurt when their overcrowded bus plunged 100 metres (330 feet) down a ravine in western Nepal.
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600 ill as authorities probe mystery buried object The Peruvian authorities are warning people not to visit the site of a suspected meteorite strike in a remote area of the Andes after 600 people succumbed to "headaches, vomiting and nausea" caused by inhaling gas at the scene.â¦
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NOTRE-DAME-DE-MESAGE, France  - At least 26 Polish pilgrims died on Sunday when their coach crashed off a mountain road at a notorious accident blackspot in the French Alps and burst into flames, police and officials said.
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Forty-nine people, including four children, have died after a bus plunged off a bridge into a river in Peru&#39;s northern jungle, according to officials.
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A passenger bus careened off a mountain road in Peru and plunged into a jungle river, killing 49 people and injuring 15 others, police said Monday.
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At least 12 Peruvian children have died of rabies after being bitten by bats in a remote Amazon province of Peru, a health official said.