Local transportation authority says bus was carrying people to attend Easter weekend church service. A bus carrying 46 people crashed over a bridge in South Africa, killing everyone on board except an 8-year-old girl, local officials said Thursday.  The accident happened on the Mma Matlakala Bridge between Marken and Mokopane, in the northern province of Limpopo, roughly 320 kilometres north of Johannesburg.  The Limpopo Department of Transportation and Community Safety said, in a statement posted on Facebook, the bus was believed to be carrying people who were travelling to attend an Easter weekend church service in the town of Moira.  According to the statement, it's believe the bus lost control and went over the side of the bridge and plummeted 50 metres below onto a rocky surface and caught on fire.  The child who survived the accident was transported to a nearby hospital to be treated, but details of her condition are unclear. The bus was registered in the neighbouring country of Botswana, the department said, and officials are working to confirm the citizenship of the victims.  The statement went on to say "some bodies were burned beyond recognition," while others were either trapped in wreckage or scattered nearby.   Source: CBC

The sale of advance bus tickets on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr has started from today (March 22). Passengers can collect tickets from different counters in the capital. Ramesh Chandra Ghosh, Chairman of Bangladesh Bus Truck Owners' Association, confirmed the matter on Friday (March 22). According to Bangladesh Bus Truck Owners' Association, advance tickets will be available at all inter-district bus counters from Friday morning. At the same time, passengers can collect advance tickets online. Ramesh Chandra Ghosh said that bus fares will be charged as per the fixed fare of BRTA. No extra fare can be charged outside the fare list. All bus owners have been instructed to do so. Meanwhile, 'busbd.com.bd', an associate of the bus companies' online ticket sales, said in a special notice that advance bus tickets on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr will be sold online from today (March 22).  

At least seven people were killed in a collision between a bus and a auto-rickshaw. The accident took place in the Parerhat area of Pirojpur around 12:30pm. The incident took place at Jhautala bus stand are on Friday (March 8). The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Pirojpur Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Kamruzzaman confirmed the matter to the reporters. He said that the incident took place at Jhautala area of Parerhat road at noon. The fire service recovered seven dead bodies so far and sent them to the hospital. The death toll in the accident may increase.

The bus fell off a bridge en route to neighboring Burkina Faso, carrying both locals and foreigners. Road accidents are common in Mali, with roads and vehicles suffering from poor conditions. A bus fell off a bridge in southeastern Mali on Tuesday, killing 31 people, the Transport Ministry said. "The provisional toll is 31 killed on the spot and 10 injured, some of them seriously," the ministry said. What we know about the crash The bus was en route to neighboring Burkina Faso when it "overturned," the Transport Ministry said in a statement on Facebook. It crashed near the western town of Kenieba around 5 p.m. local time (1700 GMT). The accident occurred at a bridge crossing the Bagoe River, the ministry said. The victims included Malians and citizens from other West African countries, it added. "The probable cause was the driver's failure to control the vehicle," the ministry said. Road accidents are common in Mali and West Africa, where many roads and vehicles suffer from poor conditions.

Seven people killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG in Mymensingh. The accident took place at Alalpur area of ​​Sadar Upazila around 11:00 am on Friday (February 16). Accorduing to Officer-in-Charge (OC) Anwar Hossain seven people were killed in the bus-CNG collision. Police have been dispatched to the scene. Anwar said that the accident happened around 11:00 am when the bus crashed into the autorickshaw coming from the opposite direction on the Mymensingh-Sherpur regional road in the Alalpur area, the seven passengers of the autorickshaw killed on the spot.  

A bus belonging to 'Ekushey Paribahan' overturned after colliding with the infrastructure of the Sayedabad Toll Plaza on Mayor Hanif flyover in the capital.   Police said the incident occurred on Saturday (Jan 20), leaving the bus driver injured. Fortunately, there were no passengers on board at the time of the accident, they said.   The bus, which was repaired at a garage, was on its way to the bus terminal.   As it approached the Syedabad toll plaza, the driver attempted to brake but collided with the toll plaza infrastructure, causing it to overturn. According to sources, one of the four lanes had to be closed due to the accident, affecting the traffic flow.   After more than two hours of efforts, the bus was eventually removed from the accident site by wreckers around 4pm.

Seventeen bus companies are accused of illegally transporting more than 33,000 migrants at the behest of Texas Governor Greg Abbott in the $708 million lawsuit. New York City on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing 17 bus companies of illegally transporting more than 33,000 migrants to the city from the state of Texas. The transport firms are being sued for more than $700 million (€639 million), accusing them of illegally transporting tens of thousands of migrants from the southern border to New York under the guidance of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The bus firms are accused of taking part in a "bad faith" relocation measure that violates state restrictions on abandoning "needy persons" in New York. The suit seeks economical damages to cover the cost of caring for an estimated 33,000 migrants that have arrived in the United States' largest city on the buses since the spring of 2022. New York had sought to curb the arrival of buses carrying migrants by limiting where they could drop passengers off, as well as introducing prior notification requirements. But those requirements have been circumvented. Migration remains a thorny issue across the political divide ahead of a presidential election set to take place later this year. Adams says Abbot's scheme is 'reckless' Some buses carrying migrants have dropped off passengers in neighboring New Jersey state from where they make the last leg of their journey to New York by railway. "(The city) announced a lawsuit against 17 charter bus and transportation companies that seeks to recoup all costs New York City has incurred providing emergency shelter and services to migrants transported by the charter bus companies, totaling at least approximately $708 million in the last 20 months," the city said in a statement. "New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the costs of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas alone," New York Mayor Eric Adams in a statement. "Today, we are taking legal action against 17 companies that have taken part in Texas Governor Abbott's scheme to transport tens of thousands of migrants to New York City in an attempt to overwhelm our social services system." Abbot hits back over 'baseless' accusations Abbot has responded by saying the allegations are "baseless." He also took a sideswipe at Adams, posting on X that the New York Mayor "knows nothing about the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, or about the constitutional right to travel." In July of 2023, the US Justice Department sued the state of Texas over the installment of floating barriers in the Rio Grande River to stop migrants crossing from Mexico. The Rio Grande is 1,896 miles (3,051 kilometers) long, running from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. Every day, hundreds of migrants attempt to cross the river to try to enter the US. Republican Texas Governor Abbott has taken several steps in recent years to block migrants. Those included razor-wire fencing, arresting migrants and charging them with trespassing, and bussing asylum-seekers to other states led by the Democratic party.

The state of Pakistan has been desperately brainstorming for some kind of respite or solution to suppress the anti-Pak sentiment in its illegally captured territories of Pakistan-occupied Jammu-Kashmir (PoJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). It has tried everything from a concession in the distribution of essential items such as foodgrains, clean water, and electricity, to the use of militant force of the Pak Army, radicalization, extra-judicial killings of innocents, activists, and students, and stripping citizens of their legal rights over their land.    Today’s news coverage in these regions is a tell-tale of the actual situation that international media has failed to represent for decades – Pakistan’s despicable apartheid of the occupied Kashmir. Captured under the banner of ‘Azadi’ (freedom) and Pak-architected terrorism, the country had excused the occupied region from the international eye. But now it is grappling with fear as social media has overrun their influence in the region. In Chilas (GB), a bus was attacked by “unknown” gunmen last week killing 9 passengers and injuring 26 others. It is hard to comprehend how this violent outbreak coincides with GB’s ongoing historically largest civil disobedience movement. The locals’ long-standing grievances have not been honored by the government for seven decades, against which they have been conducting sit-in protests and complete wheel-jam strikes for over a year.   It is widely known and acknowledged that the Pak government has tried every trick in the book to dissipate this revolution, but has not been able to contain it because the citizens have preserved oppression for too long. This is what makes the bus “attack” peculiar.   The rogue country has been battling internal security tensions since the Taliban takeover of neighboring Afghanistan in August 2021. The situation has escalated since they started kicking out innocent Afghan-decent populations from their country back to medieval Afghanistan. Attacks against the Pak Army and institutions have been common in the last few months, but the agenda has not included minorities. Pakistan though is pinning the Chilas attack blame on “terrorism”.   The incident being covered up under the guise of terrorism cannot be singled out. In September a group of armed men captured Chilas’ New Bus Station and the recent diversion of the Indus River on November 30th for the construction of the Diamer Basha Dam, points to another story. This attack on the Karakoram Highway may also have been a strategic move to divert attention from the ongoing wheat subsidy issue, which has been a focal point of the protests these days. It isn’t hard to infer who would benefit from such disturbances when GB demands freedom from Pakistan.   Local activists have shared the dismal attitude of the government concerning GB, versus their outrage on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Highlighting the contrast, the analogy has sparked social media debates. Underreporting of Pakistan’s colonization of GB blocks the urgent international attention the territory needs. The government, lawmakers, politicians, and Ulemas keep their flocks in check to keep them from divulging into anti-Pak polemics. This is why an average Pakistani defends the decision of not integrating GB into their region and giving them equal constitutional rights. Like their leaders, Pakistanis continuously blame the Taliban (which it created, supported, and sheltered for decades), and neighboring India’s alleged interference. Afghan authorities have outrightly rejected the Taliban hand that Pakistan has been pushing. Pakistan’s audacity in shifting the blame does not end here. Speaking to a regional daily, GB’s opposition leader Kazim Mesam claimed that the government should quit pointing fingers at innocent people of Diamer and focus on arresting the real terrorists, of whom the Interior Minister is well aware. The miscreants are the same people who had abducted Abaid Ullah Baig, a contestant in the 2020 GB assembly election, and murdered a local police station house officer (SHO). Mesam warned Pakistani leaders against deceiving the public by arresting local herders, as they had before.   Adding to this claim, Wazir Hasnain, president of the Tehreek Pasdaran (PoJK & GB) asserted that the Chilas bus attack was a conspiracy to instigate riots on a big scale. He insisted that the scheme was for the people of all sects to come together in chaos, fear the violence, spoil their harmony, and compromise their fight for rights. Activists argue the alleged implication of external involvement on various such grounds. Regardless, the Chilas attack has had an opposite reaction – the revolution in GB has returned stronger.

In Gazipur’s Tongi, a BRTC double-decker bus was set on fire on Sunday, October 29 amid the countrywide hartal called by BNP. Mustafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Tongi East Police Station, confirmed the news. He said a Dhaka-bound BRTC double-decker bus was set on fire by miscreants in front of Cheragali Market in Tongi. No casualties were reported in the incident.

At least 5 people were killed and 10 people were injured in a bus accident at Trishal in Mymensingh.   Around 8 am, the accident took place at Chelerghat area of ​​Dhaka-Mymensingh highway on Wednesday (October 11) .  Main Uddin, Officer-in-charge (OC) of Trishal police station confirmed the matter. In Dhaka-Aricha highway, another 5 people were killed.  More to follow....