Federal Parliamentary Secretary Azeem Khan Daultana, his driver and security guard have been killed in a road accident near Luddan area of Vehari district. Police say that Azeem Daultana – a member of the National Assembly (MNA) from Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) – was on his way home after meeting PPP MPA Shaharyar Khan when his car skidded off the road due to over-speeding and ran into a tree near Kotwali Bridge. According to a private news channel, 35-year-old Azeem Daultana sustained serious injuries in the crash, and succumbed on his way to the hospital. He was nephew of Begum Tehmina Daultana, an MNA from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. He was the only son of his parents, and his marriage was scheduled for February 4. He won the election of NA-168, Vehari-II, held on February 18, 2008, by defeating Ishaq Khan Khakwani and Tehmina Daultana.

At least five people were burnt alive and 11 others injured as a gas cylinder of passenger van caught fire after an accident here in Gujranwala on Wednesday. Sources said that the cylinder exploded when the van, carrying 16 passengers, overturned due to over speeding. “The injured and bodies have been shifted to a nearby hospital,” sources said.

At least 12 passengers were burnt alive and over 10 injured as CNG cylinder of van captured fire after explosion here at National Highway near Khairpur. Local sources said that the area people have shifted the injured and bodies to nearby hospital while rescue teams have not yet reached at the spot. However, some media reports claimed that only four people were died in the incident.

At least Ten passengers including two children have been killed and several others injured in a gas cylinder blast in a bus on National Highway near Matiari, Express News 24/7 reported Wednesday.The bus was carrying 23 passengers from Matiari to Hyderabad when its cylinder exploded on National Highway, police said. The injured have been shifted to nearby hospitals.After the accident, traffic was suspended on the National Highway.

A passenger van catch fires after blasting the cylinder at least 14 passengers were dead while seven sustained injuries this accident encountered on Tuesday near Taxila. The tire has punctured that is cased the van bumped with a tree.
After the car crash, the gas cylinder was exploded, which caused its complete destruction. Rescue teams were reached the place after the incident and shifted the injured to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Hospital.

MULTAN: Nine passengers, including three from a family, were killed and 12 others injured as a van they were riding, collided with a bus near Ghaziwala on Shujabad road, some 28 kilometres away from Multan on Thursday. SHO Muzaffarabad police station, Rana Farooq, told reporters that a van was on its way from Jalalpur Pirwala to Multan when it collided with a city transport bus that was on its way to Shujabad from Multan. The collision left nine passengers, including three kids, two women and the driver dead on the spot. Three of the nine dead passengers hailed from a family including Saima, her seven-month old son Jawwad and three-year-old daughter Sadaf.

A bus carrying thirteen passengers fell into Bahawal Canal that killed four persons including two women and two girls while four others sustained injuries, Express news 24/7 reported Wednesday.
According to the report, the bus was on its way to Faisalabad from Bahawalnagar but unfortunately fell into the canal due to over speeding.
After the accident, local residents and police reached the spot to help the victims during which two women and two girls drowned. The injured were shifted to Tehsil Headquarter Hospital, Hasilpur. Rescue teams have reached the accident site and efforts are underway to pull out the bus from the canal and shift the injured to hospital.

At least twenty-three people were killed and more than 20 sustained injuries as a result of collision between a passenger van and bus on National Highway near Thatta, on Sunday. The speeding passenger van, which was travelling towards Karachi from Badin, collided with a bus heading for Shah Aqiq from Karachi. The dreadful accident left the van in deformed pieces scattered everywhere around the site of the mishap. At the place of accident local people, police and emergency services got engaged in rescue and relief activities. Their work was hampered owing to the fall of darkness after dusk. Some dead bodies and injured were stuck in the twisted pieces of van and the rescue teams had to cut the seats to retrieve them. According to police sources, 20 passengers were inside the van while the bus carried 70 passengers. Bodies and injured were rushed to Makli Civil Hospital where emergency has been declared. Rangers were also called in to hospital as a security measure. Eight of the most seriously wounded had to be shifted to Karachi Civil Hospital whose condition is said to be critical. DPO Thatta Muhammad Ali Wassan feared that all the passengers of the van seemed to have perished in the accident. The accident had caused a severe traffic jam on the busy National Highway, sources added

 At least 70 sacrificial goats were killed on Wednesday when a trailer carrying them to Lahore’s cattle market overturned near Rahim Yar Khan, Express News 24/7 reported.
A total of 292 goats were being transported from Khairpur Ghotki to Lahore for Eidul Azha.
Around 70 goats were killed and many injured, deeming them unsuitable for sale as sacrificial animals, in the accident.The owner of the herd blamed the driver for the incident, saying he had dozed off and lost control of the vehicle.
He claimed that he had incurred a loss of up to three million rupees.

At least 31 people have been killed and more than 100 injured as a wooden suspension bridge collapsed at Bijanbari, 40 kilometre from Darjeeling in West Bengal, Indian media reported on Sunday.
While 10 people died on the spot, the rest succumbed to their injuries in hospitals. The death toll may rise as some of those injured are critical, reports said.
Over a 100 people had gathered on the bridge to listen to a religious leader, an official said adding that the pressure of the crowd led to the collapse of the bridge.
The suspension bridge was built in 1972. It was meant for pedestrians but over time was used by motorcycles which weakened it, he said.
Indian Army's Mountain Brigade at Darjeeling has sent troops to the site for assistance.
The West Bengal government has announced a compensation of Rs. 200,000 to the families of those killed in the mishap.
State Disaster Management Minister Javed Khan said all seriously injured persons were being shifted to the North Bengal Medial College Hospital.

At least 43 people were killed Thursday when a bus veered off a mountain road in eastern Nepal and plunged into a river, officials said.
The bus swerved off an unfinished stretch of road and plummeted 300 metres into the fast-flowing water below, said Lokendra Shrestha, a police officer in Sindhuli district, around 80 kilometres (50 miles) east of Kathmandu.
“Forty-three dead bodies have already been recovered and the bus has been destroyed. It is likely that more bodies will be found near the crash site, which is very remote,” said Shrestha.
A group of 11 passengers who had been on the roof jumped before the bus fell into the Sunkoshi River, said chief district officer Beni Madhav Gyawali.
A number of injured passengers were hospitalised, two of them in critical condition.
Road accidents are relatively common in Nepal due to poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.

At least 35 people were killed when a bus rolled after colliding with a car on a stretch of highway in northern China on Friday, state media reported.The accident occurred near the port city of Tianjin, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local authorities. It was not clear how many people had been injured, according to the brief dispatch.The fatal crash was the latest on China’s notoriously dangerous roads, where drivers often flout seldom-enforced traffic safety laws. In September, nine people were killed and over 20 injured when a passenger bus rear-ended a cement truck on a highway in eastern China’s Anhui province.Almost 70,000 people died in road accidents in China in 2009 — around 190 fatalities a day — according to police statistics.China overtook the United States in 2009 to become the world’s largest auto market.

Nineteen people, mostly Indian tourists, were killed early on Sunday after a small place carrying them crashed close to capital city Kathmandu.
Rescuers had managed to bring out a lone survivor alive from the wreck site while 18 bodies had been recovered, police said. However, the survivor, identified as Nepal's Nirajan Karmacharya, 36, died while receiving medical treatment. The small aircraft, belonging to domestic airline Buddha Air, was flying mostly tourists on a mountain flight in northern Nepal when it crashed in Kotdanda in Lalitpur district, close to Kathmandu. It was carrying 16 passengers -- 10 Indians, three Nepalis and three foreigners. The aircraft flew around 7 a.m. from Kathmandu and went out of contact half an hour later.
Initial reports said the crash could have occurred due to bad weather and poor visibility. An army aircraft rushed to the spot to help in the rescue operations. The aircraft lay devastated, scattered in pieces along with the dead bodies.

At least 43 people died when a ferry capsized off Zanzibar, but 259 have people have so far been rescued, a minister in the semi-autonomous archipelago said Saturday.
“So far we have recovered 43 people who died, but we have rescued 259 survivors,” said Mohammed Aboud, Zanzibar’s state minister for emergencies, adding that 40 of those rescued were seriously injured.
“We have asked for emergency assistance from Dar es Salaam, including divers, to help in the rescue efforts,” Aboud told AFP.
The MV Spice Islander which was travelling between Zanzibar’s main island Unguja and Pemba, two of the three islands that make up Zanzibar, had left Unguja around 9:00 pm and capsized four hours later.
The exact number of passengers on this type of ferry is often difficult to establish as no reliable passenger lists are kept.
No foreigners have so far been reported amongst either the dead or rescued, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.

A helicopter chartered by an Australian mining company crashed into a mountain in eastern Indonesia, killing all 10 passengers and crew, the head of a search and rescue team has said. The Bell 412, carrying two Australians, two South Africans and six Indonesians, lost contact with the authorities on Wednesday afternoon minutes after takeoff from the city of Manado on Sulawesi island, said Lucky Pondaag, an airport spokesman. It was heading to Newcrest's Gosowong mine on Halmahera island. A search and rescue team discovered the wreckage in the early hours of Thursday, said Ludianto, head of the operations, who goes by only one name. There was only one survivor at the scene, he said, an Indonesian man who later died of his injuries at the hospital. The bodies of the nine others have been transported to Manado.

At least five people were killed and 13 others injured when their passenger van plunged into a ravine in Jhelum River here on Wednesday, police said.
According to the details, the ill-fated van was en route from Rahimkot to Muzaffarabad, when it careened into a deep valley at a point near Asgharabad.
At least five persons were killed while 13 others were injured in the incident.
After the incident, local people kick-started relief activities before long, as the injured have been shifted to nearby Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences.
Several injured were stated to be in critical state.

The rising escalator reportedly changed direction, sending more than 20 passengers crashing down and killing the teenager, who was on the way to the zoo with his father and sister.

It happened at the exit of Zoo Station and photos of the aftermath were posted by witnesses on Chinese microblogging wite Weibo.com.

The images show people lying on the ground at the bottom of the escalator.

It appears the boy and his family were crushed under others who fell.

His father is said to be in intensive care at the Peking University People's Hospital.

His sister suffered head injuries and is being treated at a children's hospital.

Beijing MTR Corporation, which operates the Line 4 subway, blamed an "escalator malfunction" and said it had launched an emergency response.

It also apologised to the injured and guaranteed medical treatment for those affected.

The city government has demanded an investigation and asked all subway operators to carry out checks of facilities to ensure their safety.

An official says a crowded bus skidded off a mountain road in central Nepal, killing at least 12 people and injuring many others. Tuesday is Mother’s Day in Nepal, and the bus was crowded with people visiting their mothers. Sindhuli district chief administrator Jitendra Bhandari says the bus veered off the road and tumbled about 1,000 feet (300 meters) down a slope. He says rescuers had difficulty reaching the bus because it was hanging on the slope supported only by a few trees. Details were sketchy, but at least two dozen people were taken to nearby hospitals.