17 killed, 55 hurt in Pak Punjab bus collision

October 11th, 2009 LAHORE - An intelligence report of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has revealed that the Punjab Police had warned concerned authorities on July 15 that terrorists might launch an attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi. According to sources, CID (Punjab) had forwarded a report regarding the impeding threat to the Punjab Home Department and other law enforcement agencies.

September 18th, 2009 FATEH JHANG - Seventeen people were killed and 55 others wounded Friday in a head-on collision between two passenger buses in eastern Pakistan, a media report said. The accident occurred on the Pindi-Kohat road in the Fateh Jhang tehsil of the Punjab province, the Online news agency reported.

August 24th, 2009 Sargodha (Punjab, Pakistan), - Six suspected militants were arrested in Sargodha in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, on Monday. A Sargodha district police officer said a number of explosives-laden jackets and other weapons were also recovered from the militants.

August 23rd, 2009 ELLWANGEN - Four people died in a midair collision involving a helicopter and a light plane near the southern German town of Ellwangen Sunday, police said. The accident happened near an airfield where 1,000 visitors had gathered for a festival.

August 16th, 2009 MOSCOW - Two Russian Su- 27 fighter jets collided during a training exercise Sunday killing one pilot, a media report said. "According to updated information, one of the three pilots was killed in the air disaster," the Interfax news agency said quoting air force spokesman Vladimir Drik.

August 16th, 2009 MOSCOW - Two pilots narrowly escaped with their lives when their Sukhoi-27 fighter jets collided during an air show near Moscow, a Russian military spokesman said Sunday. The pilots managed to eject to safety after the collision, the Interfax news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying, adding that the wreckage landed in an uninhabited area outside the capital city.

August 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 18 people were killed and over a hundred injured during revelry on Pakistan's 62nd anniversary of independence, media reports said Saturday. The Independence Day was celebrated with traditional zest across Pakistan Friday, newspaper reports said.

July 5th, 2009 JAKARTA - Fourteen people were killed and dozens injured Sunday when a train rammed into a minibus at an unmanned railway crossing in Indonesia, a media report said. The accident occurred at 10.35 a.m.

June 29th, 2009 BEIJING - At least three people died and 60 were injured when two passenger trains collided in central China's Hunan province early Monday. The collision, which derailed several carriages and a locomotive, took place at the railway station in Hunan's Chenzhou city, state media reported.

June 27th, 2009 LAHORE - Governments in Pakistan's Punjab and Sindh provinces have been placed on terror alert amid fears that the Taliban could take refuge in the southern part of the country after fleeing from Waziristan and Swat. Interior Minister Rehman Malik disclosed that his department had recorded 1,148 terrorist threats during last four months.

June 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Six people were killed and about 70 injured when two subway metro trains collided here during the late afternoon rush hour Monday, authorities said. The above-ground collision occurred about 5 p.m.

June 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A subway train derailed and collided with a second train Monday in the US capital Washington with at least one person killed and many injured, authorities said. The accident occurred around 5 p.m.

June 20th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) MPA from Rahimyar Khan, Makhdoom Syed Ahmed Mehmood, has said that the provincial government needs to quickly build schools, hospitals and roads in South Punjab or it will become the next region in Pakistan to be wracked by insurgency. "The situation in my area has become very bad.

June 18th, 2009 RAWALPINDI/LAHORE - At least 30 explosive-laden vehicles have entered Punjab as well as the garrison town of Rawalpindi adjacent to the Pakistani capital Islamabad from the tribal areas of the country, a media report Thursday said. The intelligence agencies had warned of the entry of the 30 explosive-laden vehicles, Online news agency reported, quoting a private TV channel.

May 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A relatively unheard of terror group, the 'Tehrik-i-Taliban Punjab' has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's Lahore suicide attack in which over 30 persons, including 12 security officials were killed. According to the Dawn, the claim was made in Turkish-language and was posted on Turkish militant websites through an organization called the Elif Media.