Two killed, 17 injured in Tanzanian road accident

DAR ES SALAAM, March 20 (Xinhua) — Two people were killed at dawn on Sunday and 17 others were injured after a mini-bus they were traveling in hit a stationary truck in Tanzania’s eastern region of Morogoro.

The accident occurred hardly two days when 23 people were killed on Friday evening in the Morogoro region following a head-on collision involving a bus and a truck in Melela Kibaoni village.

Fortunatus Musilimu, the Morogoro regional police commander, said the latest accident occurred at 5:15 a.m. local time on Sunday at the Nane Nane area along the Dar es Salaam-Dodoma highway.

Musilimu told a news conference that the mini-bus that knocked the truck was heading to Dodoma from Mbezi, a suburb in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

He said the two victims, both men, died when they were receiving treatment at the Morogoro regional hospital, adding that three of the 17 injured persons were in critical condition.

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