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Seven die in car crash: At least seven people were killed and three others injured in a crash involving two buses and a truck in Ngawi regency on Friday evening, police and witnesses said. The collision took place in Karangbaru village, Widodaren subdistrict, when a Dahlia bus tried to overtake a truck, but at the same time another bus appeared at high speed from the opposite direction. A collision was then inevitable, eyewitnesses said. The overtaken truck also slammed into the rear of the Dahlia bus. The seven dead included the drivers of the two ill- fated buses. The crash caused a half-hour traffic jam at the scene. --Antara