Four dead in bus accident

SURABAYA: Two buses collided head-on on Monday in Baron subdistrict, Nganjuk regency, East Java, leaving four people dead, including one of the bus drivers, and eight others seriously injured.

The chief of the Nganjuk Police's traffic section, Adj. Comr. Budi Mulyanto, said that the accident took place at 2 p.m when a bus operated by the Sumber Kencono company attempted to overtake a car while traveling to Yogyakarta from Surabaya. During the maneuver, it smashed into a bus operated by the Rosalia Indah company, which was traveling in the opposite direction. -- JP