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CNN
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A hijacker armed with explosives took 10 Australian tourists hostage on a bus in northwest China Wednesday, before police shot him dead, media in both countries reported.
The man released all but two of the hostages shortly after taking them captive, b..
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BBC News
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The other day I was waiting for a bus in downtown Jerusalem. I was in the bustling orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Sharim and the bus stop was extremely crowded.
When the Number 40 bus arrived, the most curious thing happened. Husbands left heavil..
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BBC News
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Nine people have been killed and 28 injured after a tourist bus crashed and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
The bus was apparently rounding a sharp bend when it overturned about 40 miles (70 km) south of the city of Suez.
Russians, Egyptians..
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MSNBC
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Travel thrown into chaos
The workers created small camps with their suitcases, bundles and bags of snacks. They littered the ground with chicken bones, sunflower seed shells and cigarette butts.
Radio announcements told people to stop going to the s..
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FOX News
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An express bus overturned on Malaysia's main highway, tearing the vehicle's roof off, flinging seats into the air and leaving at least 20 people dead Monday in what officials said was the country's worst traffic disaster.
Nineteen people including the..
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Al Jazeera
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After days of heavy rain, part of a mountain tumbled on the bus as it wound through an indigenous area near the mountain village of Zacacoapan, in the Sierra Negra in the central southern state, burying it entirely under mud, fallen trees and boulders...
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BBC News
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At least 40 people are feared dead after a bus was buried by a landslide in Puebla in central Mexico.
The bus was travelling on a remote road early on Wednesday, when a mountainside is believed to have collapsed on top of it after heavy rainfall.
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SF Gate
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A landslide buried a bus carrying at least 40 passengers in the mountains of southern Puebla State early Wednesday morning, and by late afternoon, neither the government nor volunteers from local villages had been able to dig out the victims.
"Everyone..
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CNN
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A bus veered off a highway and fell into a roadside ditch in eastern Germany on Monday, killing 11 people, police said.
Police spokesman Ralf Moritz said 31 other people were injured in the accident near Halle, in Saxony-Anhalt state.
The bus was ca..
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CNN
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Landslides triggered by heavy rains in western China buried a village and knocked a bus off a highway, killing a total of 21 people, news reports said Saturday.
A mudslide late Friday swept through the village of Heba in Garze, an ethnic Tibetan region..
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FOX News
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A bus plunged nearly 30 feet into a riverbed in eastern India early Friday, killing at least 20 people and injuring another 12, an official said.
The accident occurred on a highway near Patna, the capital of Bihar state, said B.K. Singh, a state admini..
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CNN
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A daycare operator -- armed with grenades and a gun -- released more than 30 preschool children and teachers Wednesday after holding them hostage on a bus for more than eight hours.
Jun Ducat, 56, was taken into custody after the hostages were freed at..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The alleged ringleader of the July 21 bomb plotters today said he detonated his rucksack-carried device on a London bus by accident.
Muktar Said Ibrahim told Woolwich crown court he had not planned to set off the hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour ex..
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MSNBC
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An American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his traveling companions aboard a tour bus fended off two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said. The American, who is about 70 years old and retire..
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