Six dancers die in crash

Six dancers die in crash

INDONESIA: Six members of a reog dance troupe were killed when
the military truck carrying them had a head-on collision with
another truck in Central Java province on Saturday.

The dance troupe was traveling from Surabaya to Semarang city
in a truck belonging to the East Java-based Brawijaya Military
Command when the accident took place. It was the second fatal
accident on the same road within the last week.

Twenty-one other members of the troupe were injured in the
accident, two of them seriously. The injured were taken to Demak
General Hospital, while the bodies of the dead were transported
to Surabaya.

Demak Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Her Aris Sumarman said the
accident occurred when the speeding truck traveling from Semerang
had a blowout and the driver, identified as Wakijo, lost control
of the vehicle. The truck crossed the median and crashed into the
truck carrying the dancers.

The fatalities were identified as Sumiran, 58, Asmoro Widya,
25, Teguh, 28, Budi, 27, Endang, 20, and Sunyoto, 25.

Last Saturday, a van collided with a truck along the same
stretch of road, killing three of the van's passengers. -- Antara