At least 29 schoolchildren were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school's director said.
"We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too," said Innocent Mushi, director of the Lucky Vincent Primary School in the northern city of Arusha, where the children wereRead more
At least 20 children were killed in a bus crash outside the South African capital Pretoria on Friday, emergency services said, as rescue vehicles and ambulances treated the injured at the scene.
"It is confirmed 20 children have been killed," Russel Meiring, spokesman for the ER24 emergency medical service, told AFP.Read more
At least 19 people were killed and 21 injured in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday when a bus heading to neighboring Chile overturned in central Argentina's Mendoza province.
The bus, belonging to Chilean company Turbus, crashed on national highway 7, as it was going round a curve at high speed, according to a survivor.
"It was going very fast, theRead more
At least 14 people were killed and 41 others wounded in a traffic accident along a highway in Afghanistan's western Farah province on Sunday, police said.
"A long-distance bus was travelling from western Herat province en route for the capital of Kabul but the ill-fated vehicle crashed with a parked cargo truck roughly at midday in Gulistan district, Farah province,"Read more