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Philippines bus plunges into ravine killing 14

News to offer  today bus plunges into ravine.Two foreigners were among 14 people killed when a tourist bus fell into a deep ravine in the mountainous northern Philippines on Friday, authorities said.

"The bus plunged about 120 metres while travelling on a narrow road heading to an area famous for its “hanging coffins”, said a report from the civil defence office.

A Canadian man and a Dutch woman were among the 14 passengers killed, it added.

Police said 32 other people on board were injured including another Dutch woman and the bus driver.The deputy provincial police commander, Ramir Saculles, said disfigured corpses were strewn along the hillside, while some others fell into rice paddies at the bottom of the hill.

A local police spokesman, Davy Vicente Limmong, said the authorities suspect either the driver made a mistake or the bus suffered a mechanical failure, since no other vehicles were involved and the weather was clear.The bus was heading to Bontoc, a jumping-off point for the rustic town of Sagada which is popular for its hanging coffins embedded on the sides of cliffs, as well as for its scenic atmosphere.Poorly-maintained buses are the backbone of land transport in the Philippines but they have been involved in frequent accidents, leading to calls for tighter regulations.

Engineering students in love commit suicide on railway tracks

 Two engineering students from Kurnool district, who were in love, allegedly committed suicide under the wheels of a goods train near James Street railway station in Hyderabad, police said today.

The parents of the girl reportedly refused to get them married and apparently depressed over the same, Nagaraj and the girl, in their 20s, who were classmates in a Kurnool engineering college, resorted to the extreme step by lying on the track when a train was passing through the area at midnight yesterday, the police said. 

Exam failure drives two PUC students to commit suicide

 Two Pre-University students in Karnataka ended their lives after failing to clear the second year exam results of which were announced on Wednesday, police said.

Eighteen-year-old Bharat committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence in Chamarajpet here, they said.

In Karwar another PUC student, son of a goldsmith, killed himself by consuming cyanide used for polishing gold ornaments at his residence, police said.

Vivek took the extreme step as he failed in mathematics subject in his second year PUC examination, they said.