Two people were killed and four others injured as a bus carrying picnickers smashed into a lorry from behind on Khulna-Bagerhat highway in Bagerhat early yesterday.

At least 42 pensioners on a day trip are killed after their bus collided with a truck and burst into flames in south-western France.

The Austrian authorities say at least 20 migrants have been found dead in a lorry in the eastern province of Burgenland.

Road transport and bridges ministry asks the authorities concerned not to ply any truck, lorry and covered-van on the highways for three days before and after the Eid-ul-Fitr.

A South African cabinet minister, Collins Chabane, and two of his security staff is killed in a car crash.