雅温得, Cameroon Fifty three people are dead and 29 喀麦隆西部一辆公共汽车与一辆装有易燃液体的卡车在周三发生碰撞后身受重伤.
事故发生在大约 3 上午. local time at the Cliff of Dschang, near the city of the same name.
“This unfortunate accident, which occurred during the night, highlights the problem of night trips favored by certain interurban passenger transport companies and the need for their supervision,” said Cameroon’s transport minister, Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe.
The bus belonged to Menoua voyages, 他说, an interurban travel agency operating in the region. The injured, which include children, according to Cameroon state media CRTV, were taken to Dschang District Hospital.
The minister said an investigation will “establish the responsibilities” 和 “the appropriate measures” will be taken. He expressed his condolences to the families of the dead and wished those injured a “speedy recovery.”
Images and video from CRTV show a burned out truck at a corner next to the overturned and still flaming bus.
上个月 37 人, including four children, died when a bus hit a lorry on the Yaounde-Bafoussam road in central Cameroon last month, according to Associated Press reporting.
