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Sunday bus accident declared national disaster, Botswana accident ignored - video
20 Jan 2015 at 03:58hrs | Views
The government today declared the bus accident that killed 26 people along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway Sunday a national disaster.
This as police released the names of the victims, including four people from the same family.
The crash occurred in the afternoon when a Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) and Pioneer buses side swept each other. Twenty-five people died Sunday, and one is said to have died Monday, increasing the death toll to 26.
Local Government Minister Ignatias Chombo and Transport Minister Obert Mpofu on Monday visited dozens of injured passengers who are admitted at Parirenyatwa Hospital.
11 people from Tsholotsho we killed in a horrific accident in Botswana during the first week of January and the government was silent about the accident but Vice President Mphoko came to the rescue and handed over groceries worth $7,000 which were sourced from Choppies supermarket and 200 litres of fuel for the vehicles which will be used to repatriate the bodies from Botswana on Tuesday. Government did not involve itself in the accident that killed people from Tsholotsho.
Five men, five women and a child perished after their people carrier, which was driving through Botswana to South Africa, hit a donkey on the Martins-Drift road in central Botswana on January 12.
This as police released the names of the victims, including four people from the same family.
The crash occurred in the afternoon when a Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) and Pioneer buses side swept each other. Twenty-five people died Sunday, and one is said to have died Monday, increasing the death toll to 26.
Local Government Minister Ignatias Chombo and Transport Minister Obert Mpofu on Monday visited dozens of injured passengers who are admitted at Parirenyatwa Hospital.
11 people from Tsholotsho we killed in a horrific accident in Botswana during the first week of January and the government was silent about the accident but Vice President Mphoko came to the rescue and handed over groceries worth $7,000 which were sourced from Choppies supermarket and 200 litres of fuel for the vehicles which will be used to repatriate the bodies from Botswana on Tuesday. Government did not involve itself in the accident that killed people from Tsholotsho.
Five men, five women and a child perished after their people carrier, which was driving through Botswana to South Africa, hit a donkey on the Martins-Drift road in central Botswana on January 12.
Source - Byo24News
