NEW DELHI, Oct 8, 2007 (AFP) - A New Delhi court on Monday ordered the city to submit a plan this week for phasing out speeding private buses that have claimed almost 100 lives in a spate of accidents this year, a report said.

The court order came after a bus plowed into a crowd of pedestrians Sunday, killing at least eight people and sparking violent protests.

Police fired tear gas and used batons on an outraged crowd as residents and relatives of the crash victims beat up the bus driver, smashed the vehicle and blocked roads for hours to protest the accident.

KABUL, Oct 3, 2007 (AFP) - The Afghan government said Wednesday it had introduced measures to thwart suicide attacks on its buses as the Taliban vowed to pursue the 'effective' tactic that has killed dozens of people.

A suicide attacker blew himself up on Tuesday while trying to board a police bus in Kabul and killed 13 people, while on Saturday 30 people were killed by another attacker who tried to enter a defence ministry bus in the capital.

RABAT, Sept 17, 2007 (AFP) - Fifteen Moroccans were killed and 42 injured when a bus skidded into a ravine in the southeast of the country, the national MAP news agency reported Monday.

It said that seven of those killed in the accident late Sunday near the town of Errachidia were soldiers returning to barracks from leave.

The vehicle travelling between Marrakesh and Errachidia went off the road on a tight bend.

Fatal road casualties in Morocco rose by more than four percent last year to 3,622 compared with 2005, according to official figures.

BRATISLAVA, Sept 5, 2007 (AFP) - The Slovakian government decided Wednesday to draw up a list of dangerous roads on which buses should be banned following fatal accidents over the last week.

'A list (of roads) will be drawn up on which buses will be banned,' Prime Minister Robert Fico said.

Four people were killed and around 30 injured when their bus skidded into a deep ravine near Hrinova in mountainous central Slovakia on Sunday night.

The bus was carrying about 40 members of a local folk music group after they attended a nearby festival.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13, 2007 (AFP) - Nineteen people were killed and seven critically injured when a passenger bus in Malaysia overturned early Monday, state media reported.

The driver of the bus apparently lost control of the vehicle which skidded before overturning near a village in northern Perak state, the Bernama news agency said.

No other details were available.

LIMA, Aug 7, 2007 (AFP) - Seventeen people were killed, including two children, and 37 were injured when two buses collided head-on in southern Peru early Tuesday, highway police said.

The buses crashed on the Panamerican Highway some 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Lima due to 'a wrong move by one of the drivers,' police Colonel Victor Ordinola told AFP.

Among the dead were three women and two children. The injured were taken to hospitals in Arequipa and Nasca.

COTABATO, Philippines, Aug 3, 2007 (AFP) - A powerful bomb tore through a bus at a southern Philippines depot on Friday, leaving one person dead and at least five injured, police said.

The explosion ripped through the vehicle as it pulled into the terminal in the city of Koronadal, said provincial police commander Superintendent Robert Kuinisala. A second bus at the terminal also caught fire.

He said it was connected to a spate of bus bombings linked to an extortion plot. The company had received letters demanding monthly payments.