Nine killed in Indonesia boat accident

August 19th, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 25 people were killed and 13 injured when a truck packed with up to 100 people overturned and slipped into a ditch in Central Kalimantan province on the Indonesian part of Borneo Island, a media report said Wednesday. The accident took place Tuesday night when the truck carrying around 100 workers from an oil palm plantation crashed in the district of Sampit, MetroTV reported.

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.

May 29th, 2009 Ship sinks off Indonesia's coast, at least 7 deadJAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers searched for survivors Friday after a wooden boat packed with Afghan migrants sank off western Indonesia, killing at least seven people and leaving more than a dozen others missing, the navy said. Fishermen rescued more than a dozen people from the choppy waters where the boat sank Thursday in the Malacca Strait, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from land, said Al Muhfid, a navy second lieutenant.

May 29th, 2009 Ship sinks off Indonesia's coast, at least 9 deadJAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers searched for survivors Friday after a wooden boat packed with Afghan migrants sank off western Indonesia, killing at least nine people and leaving 11 others missing, the navy said. More than a dozen Afghans have been found alive in the Malacca Strait, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from land, said Al Muhfid, a navy second lieutenant.

May 14th, 2009 MIAMI - At least nine people have been drowned when a boat carrying Haitian immigrants sank off the coast of Florida, the US Coast Guard said. The boat was travelling from the Bahamas.

April 27th, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 30 people were missing Saturday when the boat in which they were travelling sank off the coast of Riau in Indonesia, a media report said. The boat was carrying 60 people to a marriage party at the time of the accident in Duami, the Antara news agency reported.

April 26th, 2009 Boat sinks off Sumatra in Indonesia, killing 9JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian police say at least nine people died when a packed wooden boat carrying a wedding party sank off Sumatra's eastern coast. Police say fishermen and rescue workers plucked 33 survivors from the sea in Saturday's sinking, and at least four are still missing.

April 9th, 2009 JAKARTA - A light airplane crashed Thursday morning in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, and all four of its crew members were feared killed, news reports and officials said. The Avia Star aircraft was en route from the capital Jayapura to Wamena district, carrying cargo and four crew members.

April 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - More than 25 Hindu pilgrims returning from a temple were missing after the boat they were travelling in capsized in the Yamuna river in Uttar Pradesh Saturday, an official said. The accident took place near the Beejal ghat in Jalaun district, some 250 km from Lucknow, district magistrate P.

March 9th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Four teenaged students, including three girls, were killed in central Nepal Monday when the boat they were travelling in capsized. Shivaraj Kharel, Rachana Tamang, Ekata Kharel, and Srijana Tamang were drowned in the Kosi river in Timalbesi in Kavre district while heading for a nearby temple, reported a TV channel.

February 18th, 2009 JAKARTA - Nine people, including eight nuns, were killed when the car they were travelling in plunged into a ravine in Indonesia's South Sumatra province, an official said Thursday. Another nun was critically injured in the accident Wednesday, said Ani Mariani, an official at the Caritas hospital in the provincial capital, Palembang, where the nuns worked.

February 7th, 2009 DHAKA - At least ten people died and 25 were injured when a boat capsized in Bangladesh, 109 km northeast of capital Dhaka, the private news agency UNB reported. The survivors were quoted as saying that the boat with about 50 passengers on board collided with a ferry in Titas river in Brahmanbaria district at noon.

February 2nd, 2009 JAKARTA - A boat carrying 198 people, all from Myanmar's minority Rohingya community, was found stranded Tuesday morning off the coast of Aceh province in Indonesia, an official said. Nasruddin Abdullah, an official of the provincial government said: 'The boat was one of nine wooden boats that have left Myanmar some 21 days ago due to security reasons.' 'The boat was found by local sailors at around 2 a.m.

January 14th, 2009 JAKARTA - A Pakistani and two Afghan refugees were killed after a boat carrying 18 Australia-bound asylum seekers who escaped an Indonesian immigration detention centre sank off eastern Indonesia, the police said Thursday. Nine people survived after the boat capsized in the Pakuafu Strait off Rote island in East Nusa Tenggara province Wednesday, said provincial police spokesman Octo Riwu.

January 3rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - At least 45 people were reported missing after a boat capsized in a river in southwestern Nepal Sunday morning, media reports said. The incident occurred in the Saptakoshi river in Sunsari district, some 220 km from Kathmandu, according to the Avenues TV.