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LUSAKA

At least 11 people were killed and several others injured Monday in a road crash involving a bus travelling from Zambia to South Africa, Lusaka authorities said.

Zambia's High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba said in a statement that the accident involving Scania Marcopolo bus happened in Polokwane.

"The accident happened at Bela-Bela in Polokwane, about 107 kilometres from Pretoria," the statement explained.

The bus was coming from Zambia's Kitwe City in the Copperbelt Province.

The statement further explained that the bus driver was among those who survived with injuries.

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One of the injured people was airlifted to Polokwane Hospital, the statement added.

The ill-fated bus had 50 passengers and a crew of five. </s> At least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in a bus crash on the N1 highway at Mookgophong in Limpopo.

Speaking on eNCA, Limpopo transport department spokesperson Matome Moremi said the bus was on its way to Gauteng from Zambia.

Moremi said eight women and three men were declared dead while 41 others were transported to various hospitals in the province.

For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for iOS and Android. </s> A total of 11 people died in a bus crash on the N1 in Mookgopong near Modimolle on Monday morning‚ Limpopo police.

"It is alleged that the bus was travelling from Gauteng Province towards Polokwane in the early hours of today on Monday with 55 passengers and five drivers when it lost control and overturned. During this accident‚ 11 out of 60 where certified dead at the scene‚ all the drivers and other passengers sustained serious injuries and were taken to various hospitals for medical treatment‚" said Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe.

The bus was believed to have been bound for Zambia. </s> Twelve people were killed and 46 injured in a crash between a bus and a truck in northern Tanzania, traffic police said.

The accident happened late on Wednesday evening in Makomero in Tabora province.

"A total of 12 people were killed, 10 at the scene and two while being evacuated to hospital," traffic police said, adding that 46 people were injured.

The truck, which was transporting potatoes, is believed to have crashed into the bus.

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FOLLOW News24 Africa on Twitter and Facebook. </s> Forty-seven people were killed in Zimbabwe Wednesday when two buses collided on a road between the capital Harare and the eastern town of Rusape, police told AFP.

“We confirm 47 people have died in a road traffic accident at the 166-kilometre peg along the Harare-Mutare highway,” police spokesman Paul Nyathi said.

On Twitter, the state-run Herald newspaper said pictures from the scene were too graphic to post.

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The paper said the morgue at the local public hospital in Rusape had run out of space and sought help from a private funeral parlour to take in some of the corpses.

Traffic accidents are common in Zimbabwe, where roads are riddled with potholes due to years of underfunding and neglect, but the highway where the accident occurred had been recently resurfaced.

In June last year, 43 people were killed in a bus crash in the north of the country, along the highway leading to neighbouring Zambia.

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Deputy Transport Minister Fortune Chasi said the government will take steps to curb the road carnage.

“Totally needless loss of lives. This event should be the last before stern measures are taken,” he tweeted, promising to rein in public service vehicles and their owners. </s> At least 13 people were dead in South Africa after a collision involving three vehicles on Saturday, news website eNCA reported.

Transport authority spokesperson Hilary Mophete told eCNA that a driver allegedly drove off the road, sideswiping a minibus and then colliding head on with a second bus.

The second bus burst into flames, killing 11 persons; the driver of the car and one passenger in the first minibus also died and six people were injured while three were severely injured.

The accident happened in Free State, a province in the country’s centre. </s> At least 42 bus passengers died in the night from Thursday to Friday in southern Zimbabwe, local police said after a passenger-owned gas cylinder exploded for an unknown reason.

National television, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, ZBC, has released photos showing the vehicle’s carcass on a road that connects the South African border with Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city.

Last week, 47 people died in a collision between two buses on a road between the capital Harare and the city of Rusape in the east. </s> Twelve people were killed and 46 injured in a crash between a bus and a truck in northern Tanzania, traffic police said.

The accident happened late Wednesday evening in Makomero in Tabora province.

"A total of 12 people were killed, 10 at the scene and two while being evacuated to hospital," traffic police said, adding that 46 people were injured.

The truck, which was transporting potatoes, is believed to have crashed into the bus. </s> JOHANNESBURG - At least 11 people have been killed after the bus they were travelling in overturned on the N1 highway near Mookgophong, midway between Mokopane and Modimolle in the Limpopo province.

The bus had been ferrying passengers back to South Africa from Zambia when the driver lost control of the vehicle allegedly due to a punctured tyre.

The Transport Department's Matome Moremi-Taueatsoala says: “The N1 between Mookgophong and Mokopane is temporarily closed while the forensic pathologists and anyone who is responsible for cleaning the scene are busy. As things stand now, the bus is next to the road but we’re trying to clean the scene because others are still trapped under the bus.”

They've been rushed to hospitals for treatment.
At least 11 people were killed and several others injured in a road crash involving a bus travelling from Zambia to South Africa.