31 dead in truck crash PATNA: Some 31 people died after a truck carrying agriculture workers crashed into a gorge in eastern India. Thirteen others were injured. State administrator Vinay Kumar Singh said the truck fell nearly 150 feet into the gorge after the driver lost control of the vehicle following a brake failure. The accident occurred on Thursday near Bhavnathpur, a village nearly 325 km south of Patna, the capital of Bihar state.

40 dead in bus smash PORT MORESBY: Around 40 people have died after two buses crashed head-on in one of impoverished Papua New Guinea’s worst ever road accidents, reports said on Thursday. The buses were travelling at speeds above 100 km per hour and swerving to avoid potholes when they hit each other in a remote area of the South Pacific nation’s northeast. “It is one of the saddest days in the history of road accidents where we have such a number of commuters die at once,” local Assistant Police Commissioner Giossi Labi told Australian