Nineteen passengers died when a bus skidded off a bridge in Russia's far east on Sunday and plunged into a river, local government said.

Eleven students were killed when their vehicle skidded off a road into a deep mountain gorge in India-administered Kashmir on Thursday, local officials said.

Madeira began three days of mourning on Thursday for 29 German tourists who died after their bus veered off a steep road, as Germany's foreign minister and a trauma team flew to the Portuguese island to meet survivors.

At least 13 people were killed when a passenger bus collided with a truck parked on a road in southern Afghanistan on Saturday and overturned, officials said.

Five people died and 20 others were injured on Monday when a bus crashed into the pillar of a viaduct in northern Spain, authorities said.

A bus crash in North Korea has killed 32 Chinese tourists and four North Koreans, the foreign ministry in Beijing said on Monday.

At least 35 people were killed Wednesday when a bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in southern Peru, the interior ministry said.

Eleven people were killed and 46 injured when a Turkish intercity bus taking families bound for a half-term skiing trip crashed into trees while travelling on a motorway, local officials said.

Thirty-six people were killed and 11 injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry on a road in central Kenya, police said.

At least 12 people died in southern Russia early on Friday after a bus carrying construction workers veered off a road and plunged into the Black Sea, TASS news agency reported.

At least 34 people died when a bus carrying young Christian worshippers plunged down a steep ravine in central Madagascar, police and hospital officials said Tuesday.

At least 22 people died when they became trapped in a bus that caught fire after it collided with a truck in northern India on Monday.