Nine killed in Brazil bus accident

May 23rd, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - Eleven people have been killed when the aircraft in which they were travelling crashed in northeast Brazil, media reports said Saturday. The accident occurred Friday night near a private airstrip in the seaside resort town of Trancoso.

May 14th, 2009 LIMA - Twenty-six people have been killed and 18 others injured when the bus in which they were travelling fell into a ravine in northern Peru, representatives of a travel company said. There were 50 people on board the bus at the time of the accident in the northern Peruvian province of Lambayeque Wednesday.

April 7th, 2009 GANGTOK - Five people, including two bureaucrats, were killed when their car plunged into a 200 feet gorge in Sikkim due to heavy fog, police said Tuesday. Animal husbandry department secretary T.W.

March 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - One man was killed and 21 others were injured Sunday when a Blueline bus collided with a dumper truck, the police said. The accident took place on Tilak Marg 5.15 a.m.

March 5th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - At least seven people were killed Wednesday when their vehicle rammed into a stationary truck loaded with iron bars in Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib district, police said. The accident occurred 50 km from here.

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 16th, 2009 SHIMLA - Nine members of a marriage party, including a child, were killed when the private bus in which they were travelling met with an accident in Himachal Pradesh's Una district Tuesday, police said. They were going to Hoshiarpur in Punjab to attend a marriage.

February 8th, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - Twenty-four people were killed when the aircraft in which they were travelling crashed into a river in Brazil's Amazon region, EFE reported Sunday. The plane, with 28 people onboard, was on its way from Coari town to Amazon's largest city of Manaus when it crashed into the Manacapuru River Saturday, the report said.

January 31st, 2009 FUZHOU - Fifteen people were killed in a fireworks accident in Changle city in east China's Fujian province, government said. The accident occurred at 23.30 p.m.

January 27th, 2009 URUMQI - Nine people were killed and eight injured Tuesday evening when a bus collided head-on with a truck in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur region, officials said. The accident occurred at 6.15 p.m.

January 26th, 2009 INDORE - At least nine people were killed and four injured in a road accident near Indore in Madhya Pradesh late Tuesday evening, police said. 'The accident took place around 8.30 p.m.

January 25th, 2009 KATHMANDU - At least nine people were killed and nearly two dozen others injured in a tractor accident in south-western Nepal, the police said Monday. The accident happened in Kapilvastu district, about 200 km south-west of here, early Monday morning.

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 10th, 2009 LIMA - At least 30 people were killed and 20 others injured Saturday when a passenger bus in which they were travelling veered off the road and fell into a deep ravine in Peru’s northern province of Chota, EFE reported. The accident occurred at 2.00 p.m.

January 4th, 2009 GUIYANG - At least 13 people were killed Monday when a passenger bus veered off the road and fell into a ravine in China's southwestern Guizhou Province, officials said. There were 44 people on board the bus at the time of the accident that took place at about 7 a.m.