Updated 2.44pm, 20 May 2009 JAKARTA, 20 May 2009: Seventy-eight people were confirmed dead when an Indonesian air force’s Hercules C-130 aircraft, with about 130 people onboard, plunged into a housing area in Magetan, east Java this morning. Authorities fear death toll could top 100, including among the villagers whose houses were crushed in the […]
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Bus driver charged with reckless driving (Updated)
Updated 4:36pm, 17 April 2009 KUALA LUMPUR, 17 April 2009: The driver of the double-decker bus which crashed near Rawang on 13 April, taking six lives, was charged in the Selayang Magistrate’s Court here today with reckless driving. Fauzi Muhamad, 33, pleaded not guilty to committing the offence at Km442.9 of the North-South Expressway at […]
Six die in bus crash
RAWANG, 13 April 2009: Five passengers and the driver of an express bus died while two others were injured after the bus skidded, hit the divider and overturned at Km443 of the North-South Expressway near here this morning. Police said the accident occurred at about 5.30am after the double-decker bus, carrying 34 passengers from Changlun, […]
Bus crashes into house of elderly couple
ALOR SETAR, 21 Jan 2009: Housewife Aishah Ahmad, 82, was jolted from sleep today by a tour bus which slammed into the master bedroom of her double-storey house in Kampung Alor Senjaya, Titi Gajah, here. Her husband, Ismail Drahman, 84, was in the bathroom when he heard the crash at about 8am and rushed out […]
Karak crash causes water disruptions
KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Jan 2009: About 18,000 people in eight areas will experience water disruptions after a trailer laden with palm oil spilled its load following a crash at Km28 of the Karak-Kuala Lumpur Expressway today. Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) said in a statement that the spill contaminated the raw water source […]
