Image Source : REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE 22 individuals had been killed within the highway accident close to Zimbabwe’s Bulaweyo.
At least 22 individuals had been killed in a devastating highway accident in Zimbabwe when a minibus taxi collided with a truck on Tuesday close to the nation’s second-largest metropolis Bulawayo, positioned within the southwest.
According to police spokesperson Paul Nyathi, the accident occurred on a freeway linking Bulawayo with Beitbridge, a city bordering neighboring South Africa. Two individuals had been injured and brought to a hospital after the accident.
“The ZRP reports a fatal road traffic accident which occurred on 14/11/23 at around 2200 hours at the 27 kilometre peg along Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road near Thandweni Store in which 22 people were killed whilst two others were injured when a Toyota Quantum vehicle with 21 passengers on board was involved in a head on collision with a DAF truck with one passenger on board. The injured victims are admitted at United Bulawayo Group of Hospitals. More details to be released in due course,” mentioned the Zimbabwe police in a press release.
Further particulars are awaited on the incident. This comes a day after six individuals had been killed when a automobile was concerned in a lethal collision with one other truck alongside Masvingo-Beitbridge Road, as per Zimbabwean stories. Three individuals had been injured in that accident.
Many individuals in Zimbabwe, a rustic of 15 million whose financial system has been battered by a yearslong foreign money disaster and excessive inflation, regularly journey to South Africa to purchase items for resale or private use.
Road accidents are widespread in Zimbabwe, the place some drivers overload their autos and exceed the pace restrict. The poor situation of Zimbabwe’s roads has additionally been blamed for contributing to crashes, regardless of authorities efforts to pave some main highways lately.
(with inputs from AP)
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