Eight die in Jharkhand road accident

September 29th, 2009 RANCHI - Five people died and 16 were injured when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a wide ditch Tuesday morning in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand, police said. The bus skidded off the road as the driver lost control of the vehicle and it fell in a ditch in Banhi village of Hazaribagh district, around 110 km from here.

September 28th, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist rebels burnt a dumper and a road roller of a construction company in Simdega district of Jharkhand, police said Monday. According to police, Maoist rebels set ablaze the dumper and roller of a construction company at Jaldega village of Simdega district, around 130 km from here, late Sunday night.

September 3rd, 2009 RANCHI - Six people were killed and 20 injured when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a ditch in Gumla district of Jharkhand Thursday afternoon, police said. According to police, the bus had nearly 40 passengers when it went off the road while passing over a culvert at Baghima village, around 145 km here.

August 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 16 people, including four children, were killed Wednesday when the passenger bus in which they were travelling veered off the road and fell into a gorge in northwest Pakistan, TV reports said. The accident occurred in the Mansehra area.

August 17th, 2009 ANANTAPUR - Six persons were killed and ten others injured in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district late on Sunday night. According to police, accident took place at around 11:00 p.m.

May 1st, 2009 RANCHI - Six people, including three women and a child, died when the ambulance they were travelling in was hit by a truck in Jharkhand Friday, police said. The private ambulance was returning from Ranchi to Gumla when the truck hit it near the Pati roundabout in Gumla district, about 140 km from here, according to police.

April 28th, 2009 RANCHI - Eleven people, all of whom were either going for or coming back from a wedding, died in three separate road accidents in Jharkhand, police said Tuesday. Five members of a marriage party died in Gumla district when the jeep they were travelling in collided with a tractor near Jura village, around 140 km from here, early Tuesday morning, a police official said.

April 12th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh narrowly escaped in a road accident here Sunday. Singh was travelling in an Ambassador car when a tractor trolley rammed into it.

March 19th, 2009 RANCHI - Five people were killed and three injured when a truck and Jeep collided in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district Thursday, police said. A Jeep carrying around 12 passengers collided with a truck near Giddi Chumba in Ramgarh district, about 70 km from here.

March 7th, 2009 JAMSHEDPUR - The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) senior leader L.K. Advani kicked off his election campaign in Jharkhand Friday.

February 27th, 2009 RANCHI - At least 15 people were killed and 30 more were injured when a bus fell into a valley in Latehar district of Jharkhand Thursday, police said. 'A bus was going to Daltanganj from Mahutand of Latehar district.

February 14th, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand police foiled a huge blast in Khuti district of the state, recovering 40 kg of improvised explosive device (IED) planted on a road, the police said Sunday. According to the police, a police team on a long-range patrol Saturday night, got a tip off that a 'landmine' had been planted on the road between Barnghada and Kurkud in Khuti district, around 70 km from Ranchi.

February 2nd, 2009 RANCHI - At least four people were killed and two injured when a speeding truck ran over them in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand Tuesday, a police officer said. The accident took place when the six people were trying to cross the road at Grand Trank (GT) road situated near Govindpur block of Dhanbad district, around 240 km from here.

January 20th, 2009 URUMQI - Five people were killed and 14 others injured Wednesday in a road accident in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur region, officials said. The accident occurred at 1.05 p.m.

January 6th, 2009 RANCHI - Ten people died in two separate road accidents on the outskirts of Ranchi, a police officer said Wednesday. Seven people died Tuesday when the Tata Sumo they were travelling in rammed into a tractor near the Taimara valley at the Ranchi-Jamshedpur national highway, about 45 km from here.