Road mishap kills 6 in Pakistan: a truck carrying soldiers plunged into a ravine in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing six soldiers and injuring 20 others in Pakistan, an.'English-language,newspaper reported;. Monday. AP reports from Islamabad.
Their truck, was driving on a rural highway near Sui town, located 600 kilometres (360 miles) south of the federal capital of Islamabad on Sunday when the accident occurred. It's not clear what happened, but it appears the driver lost control of the vehicle. The soldiers were en route to help local officials conduct the country's first census since 1981, The News re-
50 feared dead in Vietnam: Nearly 50 people were killed and 20 injured when an overcrowded bus plunged into a swamp in one of Vietnam's worst road accidents, local officials said Monday. AP says from Hanoi.
The bus was trying to pass a cement truck when it crashed through the concrete sides of a bridge and fell into the 6-metre-deep (20-foot-deep) swamp around noon Sunday, said Nguyen Vf Thanh, deputy director of An Nhon district hospital in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh- Survivors smashed windows to swim to safety, while the rest of the passengers drowned, he said.
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Walter Mondale arrived in Jakarta yesterday for talks with Indonesian President Suharto on the country's economic crisis. Reuter says from Jakarta.
Mondale was greeted on the tarmac of Jakarta's international airport by US ambassador Stapleton Roy and was driven straight into the city, witnesses said.
11 of a gang held in Colombia: Soldiers arrested! 1 suspected members of a right-wing death squad and confiscated an arsenal of machine guns, pistols and grenades in central Colombia on Sunday, authorities said. Reuter reports from Bogota.
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Road mishap kills 40 in Nigeria: Forty people died on the spot while several others were seriously injured when a luxury bus lost one of its tyres and ran into a ditch in Nigeria Thursday night, the news agency of Nigeria said Sunday. Xinhua says from Lagos.
The report said the accident occurred at Ohono village, Koji state in central Nigeria, when the bus was on its way from Nigerian capital Abuja to the southern city of Lagos.
16 die as ship sinks in Indonesia:a passenger ship capsized on a river in northwest Indonesia after being hit by a tidal surge, killing at least 16 people, an official said Monday. Another 23 people were missing, AP reports form Jakarta.
The ship sank on Saturday with 72 passengers and four crew members on the Rokan River on Sumatra island, about 1,170 kilometres (731 miles) northwest of Jakarta, said port authority chief Bangko M Yusuf. .