BANGKOK — A bus carrying young students with their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, with 25 of those on board feared dead, officials and rescuers said.
The bus was carrying 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province for a school trip in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces, Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungruengkit told reporters at the scene.
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Videos posted on social media showed the entire bus engulfed in fire with huge plumes of black smoke pouring out as it stood on the side of the road.
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 1, the 275th day of 2024. There are 91 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Oct. 1, 2017, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U. S. history, a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, causing 60 deaths and more than 850 injuries.
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In 1890, Yosemite National Park was designated by the U.
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. EDT today (2 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Virgo into Libra.
Happy Birthday for Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024:
You are flirtatious, passionate and modest. You are also intelligent, capable and dedicated. This year is the beginning of a new nine-year cycle for you.
The 47th Denver Film Festival is moving all but one its red-carpet screenings to a new venue this year, alongside Colorado premieres of buzzy indies such as “The Piano Lesson” and “The Brutalist,” and in-person guests including Patricia Clarkson, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
The festival, Nov. 1-10 at multiple venues, will offer 185 narrative features, shorts, and documentaries, as well as parties, panels, workshops and a gala, according to nonprofit producer Denver Film.
Single tickets to screenings, plus special and gala presentations and Red Carpets, are on sale to Denver Film members on Thursday, Oct.
Dockworkers have walked out of every major port on the U. S. East and Gulf coasts, marking the beginning of a strike that could ripple through the world’s largest economy and cause political turmoil just weeks before the presidential election.
The affected ports have the combined capacity to handle as much as half of all U.