(9/06)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian airliner caught fire after a tire burst on landing at an airport in the northeast of the country on Friday, killing 28 of the 148 people aboard, state television reported.

(6/06)

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - At least 28 miners were killed when their bus plunged into a ravine as they traveled home from work at a silver mine in Peru, the mining company said on Wednesday.

(5/06)

MUMBAI (Reuters) - An overcrowded bus plunged into a shallow creek near India's commercial hub of Mumbai on Tuesday killing at least 28 people, police said.

(4/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A blast at a Chinese explosives plant killed at least 20 workers while another eight died when a firecracker factory blew up, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

(3/06)

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Twenty-eight people traveling to a wedding in southwest Pakistan were killed on Friday when their vehicle hit a land mine near the country's main natural gas fields.

(1/06)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 26 people in two separate attacks in southern Afghanistan on Monday, a day after a Canadian diplomat and two civilians were killed in another attack in the area.

(12/05)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Marxist rebels killed 28 Colombian soldiers on a mission to destroy coca plants on Tuesday, the worst blow against the military for years as tensions rise ahead of 2006 elections.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least 28 homeless people were trampled to death on Sunday and many others injured in a stampede during the distribution of food coupons at a flood relief center in southern India, television news channels said.

(7/05)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas killed nine village elders, four policemen and two other civilians in a fresh wave of violence in southern Afghanistan in which 13 guerrillas also died, officials said on Friday.

(5/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - An ammunition dump in a northern Afghan village exploded on Monday flattening the neighborhood around it, killing 28 people and wounding 70, a government spokesman said.

(3/05)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty-eight people were killed on Wednesday when a plane crash-landed and burst into flames in Russia's far north, Emergencies Ministry officials said.

(1/05)

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan troops killed 28 Lord's Resistance Army rebels, many of them on the same day a tentative peace meeting between both sides took place in a northern district, the army said on Thursday.

(12/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed in Baghdad overnight when insurgents blew up a house that police were raiding, flattening neighboring homes.

(8/04)

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - The deaths of 28 workers when a tunnel collapsed in heavy rains will not prevent India resuming work on a dam deep in the Himalayas in an area vulnerable to earthquakes, an official said on Wednesday.

KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) - Rebels masquerading as Arab militia have killed 28 Arab tribesman in attacks in western Sudan over the last week, a Sudanese official and Arab tribal leader from the area said Tuesday.

(5/04)

LOWERMUNDA, India (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed in disputed Kashmir on Sunday when a bus packed with Indian soldiers and their families ran over a land mine planted by separatist guerrillas, officials said.

(3/04)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of Maoist guerrillas stormed a telecom station in eastern Nepal, killing 28 police officers and soldiers in the biggest rebel attack since peace talks failed in August, an army official said on Wednesday.

(11/03)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Fire swept through a Moscow dormitory on Monday, killing 28 foreign students and injuring 78 others, Viktor Beltsov, a spokesman for the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, told Interfax news agency.

(1/03)

(AP) - A New Year's Eve blaze ignited by illegal fireworks engulfed an entire city block in Veracruz, killing at least 28 people.

(6/00)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Thick, black smoke billowed Friday from a pipeline fire in a Niger Delta village that killed as many as 28 people, news reports said. It was not immediately clear what triggered the explosion that started the blaze Monday in Okuedjeba as people siphoned gasoline from the pipeline. Okuedjeba is 280 miles southeast of the commercial capital, Lagos.

(2/99)

LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- A burning cargo plane slammed into a shantytown outside Angola's capital today, killing at least 28 people. The aircraft exploded on impact, demolishing five houses in Casenga, six miles northwest of Luanda's international airport. Seventeen of the dead had been on the ground.