Two killed in West Bengal road accident

September 29th, 2009 HOOGLY - Angry mob in West Bengal's Hoogly district on Tuesday burnt down two buses after a woman was crushed to death by a speeding bus. The incident, which took place at the Delhi Road highway, triggered protests by the locals who also blocked the roads.

September 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - At least nine people were killed and several others injured Friday when a speeding truck collided with a stationery mini-van in West Bengal's South 24-Parganas district, police said. "Nine people were killed in the road accident near Diamond Harbour area.

August 29th, 2009 RAMJIBANPU - A student died in police firing after violence broke out following a road accident in West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Saturday. A motorbike driver was killed in a head-on collision with a truck and a group of enraged residents had set the truck and a police vehicle on fire.

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.

July 13th, 2009 CHANDIPUR - A bus accident claimed at least seven lives and left around 25 people injured at Chandipur village of West Bengal on Monday. Carrying about 45 passengers the bus fell into a canal after driver lost control over the vehicle while trying to overtake a car.

July 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - At least six people were killed and over 20 injured Monday as a speeding bus fell into a water body in East Midnapore district of West Bengal, police said. The accident took place under Chandipur police station area when the driver lost control of the bus, East Midnapore Superintendent of Police Pallav Kanti Ghosh told IANS.

May 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - Three contract labourers were killed in an accident at a process vehicle in the Haldia Petrochemicals Limited plant in West Bengal Sunday, an official said. "Three people died in the accident.

April 20th, 2009 PUNE - At least 19 people were killed and more than 15 others were injured in a road accident that took place around 40 kilometres off Pune on Monday. Among those killed in the accident, six were women and eight were children.

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.

February 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - Eight people, including five returning from a crematorium, were killed in two road accidents in West Bengal Wednesday, police said. Five people were killed on the spot when the mini-van they were travelling in overturned at Dubrajpur of Birbhum district.

February 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - A six-year-old boy died and four others suffered serious burns and injuries after a stove burst at a fast food shop in a West Bengal district Sunday night, police said Monday. Sheikh Bablu, 51, ran the shop at Prince Anwar Shah Road in South 24 Parganas district, on the outskirts of Kolkata.

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.