Five people were killed when their car was hit by the Hapa-Tirunelveli Express at an unmanned level crossing at nearby Aroor on Sunday, Railway sources said.

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At least 10 people were killed when a fire erupted at a gas plant owned by Mexican energy giant Pemex near the US border on Tuesday, in the state monopoly's worst accident in two years.

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Two villagers including a young woman died and at least 10 others sustained injuries in a fire cracker mishap in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday evening, police said.

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In yet another tragedy involving gas leak in Chennai, three persons including a 60-year-old woman suffered serious burn injuries at Porur Friday morning.

The incident happened in a ground floor apar

Police in Karachi have registered a murder case against the owners of a garment factory where a fire killed at least 325 people in the country's worst ever industrial disaster, officers said on Thursd

In a tragic accident, a five-year-old girl was mowed down by a mini bus on Tuesday morning at Kandukur junction. K. Akshaya, daughter of K. Mallesh, a resident of Kandukur, was waiting for her school

Authorities say 8-year-old boy escaped injury after taking his mother's car for a spin through his suburban Buffalo, N.Y., neighborhood and hitting several objects before his joy ride ended on a neigh

The toll in the bus accident near Malli on the Palampur-Ashapuri road near here rose to 34 on Tuesday with authorities recovering 20 more bodies, police said.

Five others, including two women and a c

At least 25 people, including three children, were killed and 15 others injured in a fire at a shoe factory in this eastern Pakistani city on Tuesday.

According to witnesses and police, some 40 peop

At least 14 people were killed and over 20 went missing when a state-run bus skidded off the road and fell into a 1,000-metre-deep gorge near Mallu area in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Monday