Bus-truck collision kills 53 in Zambia
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February 8, 2013, Friday
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AT least 53 people were killed in a high-speed collision between a bus and a truck in Zambia yesterday.
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, said from the crash site 100 kilometers north of the capital.
There was serious speeding by all the vehicles involved, Kalaba said.
The bus 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 said from his hospital bed.
Fifty-one people on the bus died, while the truck driver and his assistant were also killed.
Some 22 survivors were being treated in a nearby missionary hospital, where they lay crying, dazed or unconscious. Some had cuts and bruises, but survivors with serious injuries were taken to Lusaka.
President Michael Sata conveyed his government's "deepest condolences to the beloved families on the death of their beloved ones."
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, said from the crash site 100 kilometers north of the capital.
There was serious speeding by all the vehicles involved, Kalaba said.
The bus 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 said from his hospital bed.
Fifty-one people on the bus died, while the truck driver and his assistant were also killed.
Some 22 survivors were being treated in a nearby missionary hospital, where they lay crying, dazed or unconscious. Some had cuts and bruises, but survivors with serious injuries were taken to Lusaka.
President Michael Sata conveyed his government's "deepest condolences to the beloved families on the death of their beloved ones."
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