39 killed in Senegal bus disaster

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Images of the incident showed the completely mangled front end of a white bus, with blood-flecked seats, personal items and a shoe strewn around the tree-lined crash site. theSun theSundaily Senegal accident SenegalAccident death

A general view of the scene of a bus accident in Kaffrine, central Senegal, on January 8, 2023 where at least 38 people have died and scores were injured when two buses collided/AFPPix: Thirty-nine people were killed and more than 100 others injured when two buses crashed in a head-on collision overnight on an arterial road in Senegal’s central Kaffrine region, President Macky Sall told reporters Sunday.

Speaking to reporters, Sall corrected an earlier government statement that had put the death toll at 40, citing a miscount at the morgue. “We have lost many young people in this accident and tomorrow the Prime Minister will convene an interministerial council that will involve the world of transport -- transporters, drivers, insurers, security services -- to look at the measures to be taken”, he added.

He said the Kaffrine morgue was “saturated” and that bodies were being sent to another morgue in Kaolack, a city 40 miles away. The president of the National Assembly, Amadou Mame Diop, said in a statement that he “and all the Members of Parliament share the grief of the entire Senegalese people” and commended “the rapid response of the emergency services”.

 

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