VIDEO: NRM SG Lumumba’s vehicle knocks dead a pedestrian Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA| A vehicle of the NRM Secretary General Justine Lumumba has knocked a woman dead along Entebbe road as she tried to cross the road. The incident happened this afternoon along the busy highway. The ruling party’s Secretary General …
Read More »Fatal football team bus crash in Ghana
Accra, Ghana | AFP | The British manager of Ghana Premier League side Asante Kotoko and one of his players were hospitalised after a bus crash that killed a member of their back-room staff, the club said on Thursday. The crash happened when the team bus rammed into a stationary …
Read More »Now, 77 dead in Central Africa truck accident
Bangui, Central African Republic | AFP | At least 77 people have died after a heavy goods lorry that was carrying passengers tipped over in the Central African Republic, officials said Wednesday. The accident took place Tuesday between Bambari and Ippy in the centre of the country. “Fifty-nine bodies were …
Read More »PAKISTAN: 123 dead, more than 100 injured in oil tanker fire
Ahmedpur East, Pakistan | AFP | At least 123 people were killed and scores injured in a fire that erupted after an oil tanker overturned in central Pakistan early Sunday and crowds rushed to collect fuel, an official said. The tragedy came less than a day before Pakistan was due …
Read More »Three more rescued after Kenya building collapse
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Rescue workers pulled a mother and two children from the rubble of a collapsed seven-storey building in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Tuesday, but several people were still missing. Officials said they had evacuated most residents before the building came down late Monday, but the …
Read More »At least 4 missing after Kenya building collapse
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | At least four people were missing after the collapse of a seven-storey building in the Kenyan capital Nairobi overnight, the Red Cross said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in a very poor neighbourhood near Nairobi’s international airport southeast of the capital, Red Cross spokeswoman Noellah Musundi …
Read More »Zimbabwe bus crash kills 43 near Zambia border
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | A bus accident in Zimbabwe has killed 43 people after the driver lost control and rammed into a tree, police said Thursday. “We have been told that 43 people have been killed,” police spokeswoman Charity Charamba told AFP. “The bus was travelling to Zambia when …
Read More »Kenya bus accident kills 19
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | At least 19 people were killed in a crash between a bus and two trucks early Saturday in Kenya, police said. The accident comes just weeks after another collision killed dozens in Kenya, which has notoriously dangerous roads. “We had a bad accident this morning …
Read More »Tunnel collapses at US nuke site, no radiation leak
Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Hundreds of workers at a nuclear site in the US state of Washington were ordered to take cover Tuesday after a storage tunnel filled with contaminated material partially collapsed, but there was no indication of a radioactive leak. Employees at the sprawling Hanford …
Read More »Deadly Tanzania school bus crash blamed on speeding
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | A bus crash in Tanzania that claimed the lives of 32 primary school pupils, two teachers and the driver was likely caused by speeding, police said. “Preliminary investigations show that the accident is due to speeding,” regional police chief Charles Mkumbo told the state-run …
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