A crowd of onlookers gathered at the scene after a bridge connecting Lamongan and Tuban in Indonesia's East Java province collapsed and fell into the Bengawan Solo River yesterday. Three trucks and a motorcycle plunged into the water, and two truck drivers died in the incident. </s> A SECTION of a bridge connecting Babat Lamongan and Widang Tuban in East Java collapsed into the Bengawan Solo River on Tuesday, April 17, causing a number of vehicles to plunge into the water.

A video posted to Facebook shows the aftermath, with trucks visible in the water. According to a local news report, two truck drivers died in the incident.

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The bridge collapsed at around 11am Western Indonesian Time (WIB). Vehicles reported to have dropped into the river include a dump truck, a motorcycle and two small HGVs, known locally as “Truk Tronton”).

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Credit: Okan via Storyful </s> At least two Indonesians were killed on Tuesday after a bridge on Java island collapsed while a motorcycle and three trucks were on it, causing them to fall into the river.

National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a statement that two truck drivers had been killed in the incident and their bodies were still trapped inside the vehicles at the time. </s> Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured in an Indonesian traffic accident Monday after a passenger tried to wrest control of a bus steering wheel following an argument with the driver, police said.

The accident happened at around 1:00 am Monday (1800 GMT Sunday) when the coach swerved into oncoming traffic on a toll road in West Java, smashing into two cars and causing a truck to roll.

Some 43 people were injured in the multi-vehicle accident and rushed to hospital, police said.

“In the middle of the journey, a passenger attempted to forcibly take control of the steering wheel… and the bus then lost control,” Atik Suswanti, the head of the Majalengka police traffic unit, told AFP.

The bus driver was killed, according to authorities, while the 29-year-old passenger was severely injured.

Traffic accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago, where vehicles are often old and poorly maintained and road rules regularly flouted.

In September, at least 21 people died when a bus plunged into a ravine in West Java’s Sukabumi region.

For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for iOS and Android. </s> JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 27 people, including a dozen children at a school, officials said Saturday. A flash flood…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 27 people, including a dozen children at a school, officials said Saturday.

A flash flood with mud and debris from landslides struck Mandailing Natal district in North Sumatra province and smashed an Islamic school in Muara Saladi village, where 29 children were swept away on Friday afternoon, said local police chief Irsan Sinuhaji.

He said rescuers retrieved the bodies of 11 children from mud and rubble hours later.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said rescuers and villagers managed to rescue 17 other children and several teachers on Friday and pulled out the body of a child on Saturday near Aek Saladi river, close to the school.

A video obtained by The Associated Press showed relatives crying besides their loved ones at a health clinic where the bodies of the children were lying, covered with blankets.

Nugroho said two bodies were found early Saturday from a car washed away by floods in Mandailing Natal, where 17 houses collapsed and 12 were swept away. Hundreds of other homes were flooded up to 2 meters (7 feet) high, while landslides occurred in eight areas of the region.

Four villagers were killed after landslides hit 29 houses and flooded about 100 buildings in neighboring Sibolga district, Nugroho said.

He said flash floods also smashed several villages in West Sumatra province’s Tanah Datar district, killing five people, including two children, and leaving another missing. Landslides and flooding in the neighboring districts of Padang Pariaman and West Pasaman killed four villagers after 500 houses flooded and three bridges collapsed.

Both North and West Sumatra provinces declared a weeklong emergency relief period as hundreds of terrified survivors fled their hillside homes to safer ground, fearing more of the mountainside would collapse under continuing rain, Nugroho said, adding that dozens of injured people were rushed to nearby hospitals and clinics.

Seasonal downpours cause frequent landslides and floods each year in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.

Copyright © 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed. </s> JAKARTA: Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured in a traffic accident in Indonesia on Monday (Jun 17) after a bus passenger tried to wrest control of the steering wheel following an argument with the driver, police said.

The accident happened at around 1am local time when the coach swerved into oncoming traffic on a toll road in West Java, smashing into two cars and causing a truck to roll.

This happened on the Cikopo-Paliman Expressway as the bus was heading to Cirebon from Jakarta, local media reported citing a police spokesperson.

About 43 people were injured in the multi-vehicle accident and rushed to hospital, police said.

"In the middle of the journey, a passenger attempted to forcibly take control of the steering wheel ... and the bus then lost control," Atik Suswanti, the head of the Majalengka police traffic unit, told AFP.

The 29-year-old passenger was severely injured, according to authorities. It was not immediately clear if the bus driver survived.

Traffic accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago, where vehicles are often old and poorly maintained and road rules regularly flouted.

In September, at least 21 people died when a bus plunged into a ravine in West Java's Sukabumi region. </s> Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured in an Indonesian traffic accident Monday after a passenger tried to wrest control of a bus steering wheel following an argument with the driver, police said

Jakarta, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - APP - 17th Jun, 2019 ) :Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured in an Indonesian traffic accident Monday after a passenger tried to wrest control of a bus steering wheel following an argument with the driver, police said.

The accident happened at around 1:00 am Monday (1800 GMT Sunday) when the coach swerved into oncoming traffic on a toll road in West Java, smashing into two cars and causing a truck to roll.

Some 43 people were injured in the multi-vehicle accident and rushed to hospital, police said.

"In the middle of the journey, a passenger attempted to forcibly take control of the steering wheel.

.. and the bus then lost control," Atik Suswanti, the head of the Majalengka police traffic unit, told AFP.

The bus driver was killed, according to authorities, while the 29-year-old passenger was severely injured.

Traffic accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago, where vehicles are often old and poorly maintained and road rules regularly flouted.

In September, at least 21 people died when a bus plunged into a ravine in West Java's Sukabumi region. </s> Image copyright AFP Image caption Video footage showed the badly damaged bus by the side of the road

Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured when a passenger grabbed the steering wheel of a bus in West Java, Indonesia, causing it to crash.

Witnesses said the passenger was embroiled in a row with the driver and tried to wrest control of the bus on a toll road in Majalengka on Monday.

The bus swerved into the path on oncoming traffic, colliding with two cars and causing a lorry to overturn.

Police have appealed for information from witnesses and survivors.

"In the middle of the journey, a passenger attempted to forcibly take control of the steering wheel... and the bus then lost control," police spokesman Atik Suswanti told AFP news agency.

Image copyright AFP Image caption Cars were seriously damaged as the bus swerved across the road

The driver was among those killed and the passenger who grabbed the wheel was one of more than 40 people injured, officials said.

It was not clear how many of the casualties were on the bus.

Serious road accidents are common in Indonesia.

In February 2018, 25 people were killed when a tourist bus ran off a road and overturned in West Java.

The previous July, 10 people were killed when a bus travelling from Bali to a town in East Java collided with the back of a lorry. </s> Cars plunge into river as bridge collapses in southern China

Cars plunge into river as bridge collapses in southern China

Two people are missing after a road bridge plunged into a river and sent two vehicles into the water in southern China.

Heyuan city police said the 120-metre (390-foot) section collapsed early on Friday morning.

China's Xinhua News Agency said two nearby security guards rescued a 44-year-old man but two other people are still missing.

Dramatic footage aired on state broadcaster CCTV showed two arches of the six-arch bridge, which spans the Dongjiang river in Guangdong province, falling apart within seconds.

The cause of the collapse is under investigation but it came as southern China was battered by heavy rain which has brought flooding. At least 61 people have died.

In Longyan City in the Fujian Province, a landslide swept cars away and one man was trapped in his vehicle.

A local resident who went to the market was buried by the landslide.

His family could not reach him by phone and there was no response from him when rescuers shouted his name.

His rescue is still underway and his condition remained unknown, according to CCTV.

Hundreds of homes and businesses have been evacuated amid the heavy rains, affecting more than two million people across southern China.

More than 20,000 homes in the south-west region of Guangxi are without power, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported.
A bridge linking Babat, Lamongan, and Widang, Tuban, in East Java, Indonesia, collapses. Several vehicles fall into the Bengawan Solo River, killing at least two truckers.