Mozambique: Man accused of killing three sisters in Vilankulo dies by suspected suicide - report
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A long-distance bus went off the road in Netia, Nampula province, northern Mozambique, on Tuesday, in a crash which killed three people and left 15 others in serious condition, authorities have announced.
Notícias online today reports that 45 people in total were injured..
The accident took place ten days after another in Maluana, Manhiça, in the south of the country, in which 13 people died, leading the Ministry of Transport to announce an impending reinforcement of disaster prevention measures.
Reports by passengers involved in yesterday’s accident, assisted at the Provincial Hospital of Nampula, indicate that the bus driver lost control of the vehicle, which left the road and overturned next to a bridge in the district of Monapo.
Two people died at the scene, the bus driver and the ticket collector, while a passenger lost her life while being transported to a health facility, the Monapo District Hospital, according to Notícias online and local sources quoted by Televisão de Moçambique (TVM) .
The Etrago bus was making one of the longest routes in the country: from Pemba, the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado, to Maputo, a distance of around 2,500 kilometres.
Road accident rates in Mozambique are classified as “dramatic” by several organisations.
A total of 32 people died a year ago in the most serious accident ever on Mozambican roads, when two trucks and a bus crashed in an unsafe overtaking incident in Manhiça, in the south of the country.
In November 2021, another 17 people died in the same district, in an accident between public transport vehicles.
On January 22 this year, 28 people died on the EN1 in Zambézia province, central Mozambique, in an accident involving a goods vehicle and a public transport vehicle.
On average, at least 1,000 people die annually on Mozambican roads, according to data provided to Lusa by the Mozambican Association for Victims of Road Insecurity (AMVIRO).
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