60 Die When Truck Crashes Into Bus, Ignites
UGANDA
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More than 60 people, including 10 foreigners, were killed when a fuel truck slammed into a passenger bus and burst into flames in western Uganda, police said.
All the passengers on the bus died in the accident near Lutoto, about 180 miles west of Kampala, the capital, police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi said.
He said the fuel tanker’s brakes failed on a hill. Police were waiting for a pathologist to determine the exact number of people killed before removing the remains.
The foreigners were United Nations workers based in Congo and heading to Kampala, police said.
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