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The Yungas Road, popularly known as the Death Road, is a 64-kilometre (40 mi) long cycle route linking the city of La Paz with the Yungas region of Bolivia. It was conceived in the 1930s by the Bolivian government to connect the capital city of La Paz with the Amazon Rainforest in the north part of the country.
The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
[65] Soon after the incident, interior minister Naqvi, warned of use of live fire on protestors, alleging that the protestors had fired on security personnel using live weapons. [66] Azaz Syed, a senior journalist, later claimed that the car that caused the accident was not driven by a PTI-affiliated individual but by the grandson of a former ...
The bus with more than 40 passengers was bound for Islamabad from Karachi
Militants opened fire at a bus in northern Pakistan, killing nine people including two soldiers, and injuring over 20 others, local police said. The attack happened Saturday night on the Karakoram ...
Data from Brazil's INPE space agency show that there have been 82,117 active fire outbreaks in Bolivia this year until Oct. 6, only 1,000 shy of the full-year record in 2010.
Death Road may refer to: Yungas Road , a notoriously treacherous route in Bolivia Kabul–Behsud Highway , a highway in Afghanistan noted for its frequency of Taliban-related killings
LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz on Wednesday evening and a general was arrested after President Luis Arce slammed a "coup" attempt ...