9 die, 52 hurt in crash
2007-08-13 07:24
Harare - Nine people were killed and 52 injured on Sunday in Zimbabwe, in a collision between a bus and a car, the second major transport accident in less than a week, state radio reported.
The crash occurred in northern Zimbabwe. The passenger bus carrying 74 people was on its way to the capital Harare from Mukumbura on the Mozambican border.
All five people inside the car were killed, as well as four passengers on the bus, said the radio.
The injured are being treated at the state-run hospital in the mining town of Bindura, near where the accident occurred, said the radio.
The latest accident comes two days after a collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Harare killed one person and injured 83 others.
- SAPA