COLUMBIA, S.C.—An Army trainee who left a base in South Carolina without permission last year and briefly held a group of children hostage at gunpoint aboard a school bus has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. The decision agreed to by prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge means the 25-year-old New Jersey man…
Bus With 40 Children Crashes in French Alps; 21 Injured
PARIS—A bus carrying 40 elementary school students home from a trip to the French Alps plunged down a wooded slope into a creek Saturday, leaving the driver and his partner hospitalized with serious injuries, authorities said. Eighteen children and one other adult were treated for minor injuries, said Fabien Mulyk, mayor of the town of…
Bus Carrying Migrants in Mexico Crashes, Killing 17
MEXICO CITY—A bus carrying migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, and Central America crashed in central Mexico, killing 17 people, officials in Puebla state said on Monday. The accident occurred on a highway on Sunday afternoon as a bus with 45 passengers headed north, Puebla’s Interior Minister Julio Huerta told reporters. “Fifteen people at the moment of…
At Least 39 Migrants Die in Bus Crash Off Panama Cliff
PANAMA CITY—At least 39 have died in Panama after a bus carrying more than 60 migrants fell off a cliff early on Wednesday, the country’s migration authorities said, marking the worst migration accident in the Central American country’s history. The bus, carrying migrants who had travelled through the Darien Gap, a stretch of jungle that…
22 People Killed in Bus, Car Collision in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan—A speeding bus collided with a car and plunged into a ravine in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 22 passengers and injuring 12 others, police said, the second such deadly accident in less than a week. The bus was traveling to the garrison city of Rawalpindi from the Ghizer district in the…
Peru Bus Plunges Off Cliff, Killing at Least 24
At least 24 people died in northern Peru after a bus carrying 60 passengers plunged off a cliff in early on Saturday, police told local media. Peru’s transportation supervisory agency (SUTRAN) confirmed the crash in a statement, without providing a number of fatalities or injuries. The tragedy, involving a bus for the company Q’Orianka Tours…
Bus Crash in Southern Pakistan Kills at Least 41
More than 40 people were killed after a bus fell into a ravine and caught fire in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said. Forty-one bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, some burned beyond recognition, district police officer Israr Umrani told Reuters. The bus carrying around 48 people crashed on the…
New Mexico Police: 7 Injured in School Bus Crash
PORTALES, N.M.—New Mexico State Police on Wednesday were investigating a crash involving a school bus and a large commercial vehicle that left seven people hospitalized, including one with serious injuries. Police said in a social media post the crash happened Wednesday morning east of Portales. There were about 22 people on the bus, but their…
40 People Killed, Dozens Injured in Bus Crash in Senegal
DAKAR, Senegal—At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, the country’s president said Sunday. President Macky Sall tweeted that the collision happened in Gnivy village, in the Kaffrine region, at about 3:30 a.m. “I am deeply saddened by the tragic road accident today in Gniby causing 40…
15 Dead, 47 Injured in Western Mexico Bus Crash
MEXICO CITY—Fifteen people are dead and 47 are being treated for their injuries after a bus carrying holiday season tourists flipped on a highway in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Nayarit, authorities said Saturday. Officials in the nearby state of Guanajuato said all the passengers were from the same city, Leon, in that state. It…
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