Dozens missing as bus plunges into river
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Beijing - A sudden flood surge on a river swept an overcrowded bus full of young students and farmers into a river, killing three people and leaving 41 missing, state media said on Sunday.
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A BUS careered off a mountain road in Peru and plunged 50 metres into a jungle river, killing 49 people and injuring 15 others. The accident happened in the Andean jungle, 215 miles north-east of the capital, Lima.
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Three people were missing after flash floods tore through a popular coastal tourist area in southwest England, sweeping dozens of cars into the sea and leaving hundreds feared trapped.
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A river boat carrying children on a school trip capsized in southern India on Tuesday, and at least 18 children and four teachers drowned, a local official said. Sixteen children were missing as night fell.
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GRENOBLE, France -- A bus carrying Polish Catholic pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep mountain road, crashed into a riverbank, and burst into flames yesterday, killing 26 people, authorities said.
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A bus careened off a bridge and plunged nearly 100 feet into a river Sunday, killing 30 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, a government news agency said.
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LIMA, Peru  - Forty-nine people, including four  children, died when a bus plunged off a bridge into a river in  Peru's northern jungle, police and bus company officials said  on Monday.
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ELOXOCHITLAN, Mexico  - Mexican rescuers dug out the bodies of 31 people on Thursday and searched for dozens more believed killed when part of a rain-soaked mountain collapsed on a bus carrying up to 60 passengers.
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At least 40 people are feared dead after a bus was completely buried by a landslide in Puebla, Mexico.
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Bus plunges off icy road as exceptionally heavy snow covers country and cripples rail network
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Authorities searched up to 20 miles (30 km) downstream on Wednesday after a suspension bridge overloaded with hundreds of people attending a Hindu religious festival collapsed a day earlier, sending most of them into a river in a remote region of Nepal.
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Twenty-two would-be immigrants drowned and 42 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend, according to official figures.
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At least 40 people are missing after a barge loaded with passengers and cargo overturns in DR Congo.
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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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Seventeen would-be immigrants drowned and 47 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend, the Tunisian navy and eyewitnesses revealed.
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JEHLUM, Pakistan - At least 18 people were killed and 38 injured on Saturday when a bus plunged into a ditch in Pakistanâs eastern Punjab province, the official APP news agency said.
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A boat crossing a river in Afghanistan's most dangerous province sank on Saturday, and at least 60 people were killed, including Taliban militants, the Defense Ministry said.