COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—A race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka on Sunday and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others, officials said. Thousands of spectators looked on as the mishap took place during a race in the town of Diyatalawa in […]
BEIJING—A bus crashed into a tunnel wall on an expressway in northern China killing at least 14 people, state media said Wednesday. Thirty-seven other people were injured in the Tuesday afternoon crash, state broadcaster CCTV said. The bus was carrying 51 passengers when it hit the wall on the Hohhot-Beihai Expressway in the city of […]
BERLIN—An 83-year-old driver in Berlin drove into a woman visiting from Belgium and her 4-year-old child, killing them both, police said Sunday. The 41-year-old mother died in the hospital where she was taken after being hit in the accident Saturday. Her child died the same evening after an emergency operation, the German news agency dpa […]
Nine people were killed on Friday in a collision between a tractor-trailer truck and a passenger van in central Wisconsin, authorities said. The wreck occurred shortly before 8 a.m. in Dewhurst, a town on state highway 95, when the van entered an intersection from a side road to cross the two-lane highway in the path […]
BANGKOK—More than a dozen Danish tourists in Thailand were injured after a bus lost control and crashed in the northern Mae Hong Son, a remote mountainous province, officials said on Friday. The driver of the tour bus, a 50 year-old man, died in hospital following the crash that happened late on Thursday. Thirteen tourists from […]
ANAMOSA, Iowa—An Iowa boy has died, days after his sled crossed in front of an SUV and was struck. The Iowa State Patrol said 13-year-old Adam McWherter was injured Jan. 10 while sledding at his home in the eastern Iowa town of Anamosa. He was struck when the sled went into a road. Adam was […]
PALU, Indonesia—A smelting furnace exploded Sunday at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 13 workers and injuring dozens of others, police and a company official said. It was the latest in a series of deadly incidents at nickel smelting plants in Indonesia that are part of the Chinese communist regime’s […]
MANILA—A passenger severely injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in the central Philippines has died, taking the death toll from the accident to 17, authorities said on Wednesday. The bus was carrying dozens of people when its brakes failed in the central Province of Antique on Tuesday afternoon, the local governor, Rhodora Cadiao, […]
SRINAGAR, India—A passenger bus slid off a Himalayan highway killing at least 37 people and injuring 18 others after rolling down a steep slope onto another road in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. The 42-seater bus was on the way to southern Jammu city from Kishtwar town when it veered off the road and […]
SYDNEY—Five people, including two children, were killed and several injured at a popular tourist town in rural Australia after a car crashed into a crowd of patrons on the front lawn of a pub, authorities said on Monday. Four died at the scene of the accident on Sunday evening in Daylesford, about 110 km (68 […]
NOTTINGHAM, England—American hockey player Adam Johnson, who appeared in 13 NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2019 and 2020, has died after his neck was cut by a skate blade during a game in England on Saturday, his team said. He was 29. Johnson was playing for the Nottingham Panthers in a Challenge Cup […]
NAIROBI, Kenya—Authorities say five children died Saturday in Kenya after a boat they were riding in at a popular amusement park capsized in the country’s western Uasin Gishu County. Police said the children were visiting Amazement Park with other students and teachers from the Arap Moi Primary School in Eldoret when they broke off from […]
Jeremy Renner has physically recovered from the near-fatal accident he suffered last January, but the experience has stayed with him. The “Avengers” star was crushed near his Nevada home while trying to stop his snow-removal tractor from sliding and hitting his nephew. He broke several bones including eight ribs, an eye socket, a knee and […]
A broken rail caused a train derailment that collapsed a bridge over an interstate highway in Colorado, killing a truck driver and blocking the road for days, federal authorities said Tuesday based on their preliminary findings. Investigators are examining how the rail broke and why warning systems did not alert crews to the condition of […]
MANILA, Philippines—Three Filipino fishermen died in the disputed South China Sea after their boat was accidentally hit by a passing commercial vessel, the Philippine Coast Guard said Wednesday. The fishermen’s boat, F/B Dearyn, was moored in a fishing area in the high seas off the northwestern Philippines when it was hit before dawn on Monday […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Five people died from exposure to a chemical that spilled after a semitruck overturned in central Illinois, according to autopsies conducted Monday. Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes said official results from the autopsies won’t be available for several weeks. The victims of the multi-vehicle crash in Teutopolis, about 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast of […]
TEUTOPOLIS, Ill.—A semitruck carrying ammonia overturned in an Illinois county, spilling the chemical and causing an evacuation of area residents Friday night, police said. The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office said the accident happened less than 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) east of Teutopolis near an intersection of Route 40 and residents were evacuated from the area […]
TURIN, Italy—Italy’s transport unions said railway maintenance staff would hold a half-day national strike on Friday after five workers were run over and killed by a train while replacing a stretch of track. The accident involving an empty passenger train took place at around midnight on Wednesday outside the station of Brandizzo, on the line […]
OSHKOSH, Wis.—Two people were killed and two others injured Saturday in a midair collision at an airport in Wisconsin. A Rotorway 162F helicopter and an ELA Eclipse 10 gyrocopter collided shortly after noon local time at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, authorities said. The aircraft belonged to individuals attending the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in […]
A 39-year-old man was found dead after accidentally falling off a hotel balcony at Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort in Florida on Wednesday. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the man died at the scene at the resort, which is located next to the popular Magic Kingdom theme park. The deceased was identified as Jeffery […]
