Iran: Bus crash kills 24 Muslim pilgrims
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A bus driver is being blamed for falling asleep at the wheel, causing a crash that killed 24 Muslim pilgrims and injured 18 more in Iran today.
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At least 20 people were killed when a bus collided with a fuel tanker in southwestern Nigeria, a newspaper said Tuesday.
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An Iranian military aircraft crashed at a Tehran airport on Monday, killing at least 36 people, state-run television reported, the latest in a string of aviation disasters to hit the Islamic Republic.
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A bus carrying Polish Catholic pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep mountain road, crashed into a river bank and burst into flames Sunday, killing 26 people, authorities said.
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A bus carrying pilgrims to Hindu shrines in southwestern India careened over the side of a steep hill Sunday night, killing 37 and injuring more than 40 others, police said.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombers struck Shi'ite worshipers in two cities yesterday and gunmen ambushed a busload of pilgrims in a series of attacks that killed at least 58 people as more than 2 million Shi'ites jammed major shrines for ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shi'ite calendar.
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LIMA, Peru -- A passenger bus plunged more than 650 feet off an isolated mountain highway in the Andes, killing at least 28 people and injuring 28 others, officials said today.
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Suspected suicide bombings tore through a bus carrying Pakistani defence workers Tuesday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and a market minutes later, killing 24 people, officials said.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Fourteen South Asian pilgrims   were ambushed and killed on their way to Shi'ite Muslim sites   in Iraq, hospital, police and army sources said on Saturday.
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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 Taliban bomber blew up a police bus in the heart of Kabul on Sunday, killing 24 people in one of the deadliest suicide strikes to hit Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted in 2001.
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At least 29 people have been killed and 30 injured, when a bus crashed into a truck and a taxi cab on a highway linking two of Morocco&#39;s popular tourist destinations.
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At least 25 people were killed and 13 injured when a bus crashed early Monday in southern China, a state news agency said.
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At least eight Egyptians were killed and 24 others injured when a bus collided head-on with another vehicle early on Friday on an intercity road south of Cairo, security and ambulance sources said.
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Iraqi officials claimed Monday that 200 militants were killed in a battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival
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Thirty-three people were killed and 14 injured in Egypt when a truck crashed into a bus carrying pilgrims back home from the holy Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, police said.
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At least 28 people die in Iran's heaviest snowfall in recent years, the Iranian authorities say.