CHIBOMBO: Fifty-three people were killed in a high-speed collision between a bus and a truck in Zambia on Thursday, the government said, one of the country’s worst-ever traffic accidents.
The bus carrying 73 passengers hurtled into an oncoming truck, leaving bloodied bodies and wreckage on a main road north of Lusaka.
“I can confirm that 53 people have died in the accident,” Harry Kalaba, an official in the vice president’s office, told AFP from the crash site 100 kilometres north of the capital.
There was serious speeding by all the vehicles involved, Kalaba said.
The Zambia Postal Service bus, which also runs passenger transport services, had been taking passengers from the Copperbelt mining province to Lusaka.
While closing in on its final destination the bus had been trying to swerve to avoid another oncoming vehicle, survivor Ackim Shawa told AFP from his hospital bed.
Fifty-one people on the bus died, while the truck driver and his assistant were also killed.
Pictures from the scene show bloodied and lifeless bodies lying next to the mangled wreckage of the vehicles.
Some 22 survivors were being treated in a nearby missionary hospital, where they lay crying, dazed or unconscious.
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