On Same Road Where Tsvangirai’s Wife Died, Crash Kills 34,Train Crash in Vic Falls
At least 34 people were killed and 44 injured when a bus plunged into a river bed near Chivhu, a few kilometres from the spot where Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife, Susan, died in a March 6 car crash.
“Twenty-nine people were killed and 39 sustained various injuries when a bus travelling to Harare ploughed into Munyati River” on Wednesday, police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena told AFP playing down the number of those who died.
He said police had set up a temporary post at the Chivhu hospitals where they are inviting relatives to come and identify bodies of the dead. Zimbabwe’s state radio is reporting a bus accident on a crumbling highway south of Harare has killed 29 people and injured 44.
The bus burst a tire and veered off the road on Wednesday a few kilometres from the spot where Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife, Susan, died in a March 6 car crash. Tsvangirai’s vehicle collided with a truck on the potholed road surface.
Meanwhile more than 800 passengers escaped unhurt when a Bulawayo-bound train from Victoria Falls knocked down and killed three elephants on Sunday morning.
The accident happened in the Bongoro area between Dete and Hwange’s Thompson Junction.
National Railways of Zimbabwe Public Relations Manager Mr Fanuel Masikati confirmed the accident and said no one aboard the train was hurt.
“I would like to commend the train driver for remaining calm and managing to steady the train before it struck the animals as that avoided a catastrophic incident that would have claimed human lives,” said Mr Masikati.
In 2007 two trains collided on the same railway at Dimbangombe siding and the government fudged the numbers ,the official government figures of those who perished in the accident was reported by the government to be 7,while witnesses reported that almost as many as 70 could have died.
Posted by Philip Mangena
on April 17, 2009. Filed under Local News.
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