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11 killed, 15 injured after pickup van rolls down into gorge in India

Atleast11peoplewerekilledand15othersinjuredThursdayafterapickupvancarryingthemrolleddownintoagorgeincentralIndianstateofMadhya,policesaid.Theaccidenttookplacene

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33 people killed in car accidents over Carnival in Bolivia

Four days of Carnival in Bolivia, lasting from Feb. 24 to Feb. 27, have seen 33 people killed in car accidents, with Monday being the deadliest due to two fatal ones, according to a police report.

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Bridge collapses on highway in Thailand when hit by truck

A pedestrian bridge across Highway 334 in Ang Thong in central Thailand collapsed after it was hit by a truck carrying a load that was too big to pass under the bridge, on Tuesday.

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Death toll in India train derailment rises to 39

​The death toll in the derailment of a passenger train in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh rose to 39, railway officials said Sunday.

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20 feared dead in gold mine accident in eastern DR Congo: local official

An accident occurred in a gold mine in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 20, a local official said on Sunday.

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32 dead in China colliery blast

Thirty-two people have been confirmed dead following an explosion at a coal mine in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Saturday.

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17 killed, 37 injured in N China pileup

A total of 17 people died and 37 others were injured after 56 vehicles piled up on a Beijing-Kunming expressway in north China's Shanxi Province Monday.

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91 killed, over 150 injured in train accident in northern India

​In one of the worst railway tragedies in India in recent years, at least 91 people were killed and more than 150 others injured after an express train derailed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh early Sunday morning.

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35 killed after bus falls into pond in eastern India

​At least 35 people were killed Monday after an overcrowded bus carrying them skidded off the road and fell into a pond in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said.

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Death toll in Thailand ship accident rises to 18

​The death toll of a ship accident in Ayutthaya, Thailand has risen to 18, as three more bodies were found on Monday morning, local media reported.

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At least 30 mainland tourists injured in bus crash in Macao

At least 30 tourists from the Chinese mainland were injured, three seriously on Monday when a tour bus crashed into a building in Macao, the special administrative region's authorities said.

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At least 16 fear dead as hot air balloon crashes in Texas

At least 16 people were killed on Saturday morning after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed near Lockhart, a city in the central part of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Former Chinese ambassador Wu Jianmin dies in car accident

Wu Jianmin, former Chinese ambassador to France, died in a car accident early Saturday morning in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei, according to the Foreign Ministry.

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3 dead, 9 injured in Belgian rail crash

​Three people were killed and nine injured in a crash between a passenger train and a freight train at about 11 p.m. on Sunday local time in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, a town in the French-speaking Wallonia region of Belgium, near the city of Liege.

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Indonesia rules out militant strike on army helicopter crash

Indonesian military have ruled out the possibility of terrorist strikes as the cause of an army helicopter crash Sunday in Poso of Sulawesi that killed all 13 military men on board, military spokesman said here Monday.

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Exclusion zone after train carrying sulphuric acid derails in Australia

An exclusion zone is in place after a 26-carriage freight train carrying some 200,000 litres (44,000 gallons) of sulphuric acid derailed in Australia.

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20 killed in car accident in Iran

​At least 20 people were killed and 10 others were injured in a car accident on a road linking capital city of Tehran to Iran's religious city of Qom on Sunday, state IRIB TV reported.