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(4/06)

MALTRATA, Mexico (Reuters) - An overloaded tour bus veered off a mountain road, crashed through a metal barrier and tumbled deep into a ravine in eastern Mexico on Monday, killing 57 people.


(3/06)

MANAMA (Reuters) - At least 57 people, mostly foreigners, drowned when their dinner cruise boat capsized off the coast of Bahrain, officials said on Friday.


(2/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two ships sank in high winds in the same stretch of the Taiwan Strait off eastern China, leaving 57 people missing, Xinhua news agency said on Friday.


(1/06)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian rescuers found scores of bodies buried in mud and debris on Saturday, three days after a massive landslide smashed into a village in Central Java province, raising the death toll to 57.


(1/05)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A state-run bus plunged into a canal in southern India on Monday, killing 57 passengers, police said, in one of the deadliest road accidents in the country in years.


(3/04)

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Troops patrolled the southern Pakistani city of Quetta Wednesday, imposing a curfew after an attack on minority Shi'ites killed 44 people and 13 more died in a stampede triggered by fears of religious violence.


(2/02)

(Reuters) - Fifty-seven people, mostly women and children, were burned alive when a trainload of Hindu activists was torched by a suspected Muslim mob in western India Wednesday, authorities said. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (news - web sites) appealed for calm and canceled a planned trip to Australia for an upcoming Commonwealth summit.


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