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At least 42 people were burned and about 30 people were burned in Zimbabwe after a bus fire in the city of Gwanda, in the southwest of the country, police sources reported today.
The accident happened Thursday night when the passenger bus I was traveling on the road from Bulawayo towards South AfricaPolice spokeswoman Charity Charamba said in statements collected by the state newspaper The Herald.
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Although the authorities have not indicated the cause, the vehicle was totally burned, as evidenced by the images published on social networks.
Passengers began to smell gas inside the vehicle and when the driver turned on the lights to see what happened, the fire startedaccording to several victims explained in statements on state television ZBC.
The police spokesman for the Matabeleland South Province (whose capital is Gwanda), Philisani Ndebele, said that the investigations of the event are in progress, in statements also collected by the public channel.
The Zimbabwe Red Cross He went to the area to help the wounded, as he published in his Twitter social network profile.
Zim Red Cross First Aid teams responded to a horrific accident around midnight at the 56 km Gwanda stud heading towards Beitbridge involving a bus to South Africa. In total, 24 people were transported to the hospital, but the number of deaths remains to be confirmed. pic.twitter.com/GSu3xRHFB7
– Zimbabwe Red Cross (@ZrcsRed) November 16, 2018
The incident occurred almost ten days after the deaths of 50 people, including two children, when two buses strike frontally on the main road in East Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe's roads cost hundreds of lives each year, because of the state of the highways, the small signage and the lighting and carelessness of some drivers.
In June of last year, 45 people died when a buswho was overloaded, got off the road and hit a tree.
In April 2017, 17 people died charred when the bus they were traveling in collided with another vehicle.
In the light of these incidents, discontent is growing among the population, considering that the security forces they do not do anything to avoid these accidents.
According to many Zimbabweans, the police only carry out roadside checks to collect bribes and do not do vehicle safety inspections, especially buses and trucks.
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