Four people have died
after a Juldan passenger Bus overturned this morning at Mporokoso- Luwingu T-
Junction in Kasama District in Northern Province.
Northern Province Police
Commissioner Richard Mweene has confirmed the development that the bus which
was driven by Davy Kasoka of Kabanana Site and Service in Lusaka overturned at
a place called Itamina’s area of Kasama district which was in route to Lusaka.
Mr. Mweene says
according to the information received the accident occurred due to over
speeding and that the weather was not conducive which lead to visibility
impairment.
The Northern Province
Police Chief says three people died on the scene including the driver of the
bus and that one woman died at the hospital.
He says about 41 people have been admitted at
Chilubula Mission Hospital.
And
Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo in a separate statement has confirmed that
the accident happened at about 06:20hours on Kasama - Luwingu road at Mporokoso
Turn off, 32 kilometers west of Kasama.
Ms Katongo says the
accident involved a Juldan Marcopolo Bus registration number ABE 6940.
She has disclosed that
of the injured receiving treatment twenty are males, 17 females and two
juveniles.
In a related
development, a three year old boy died on the spot in an accident which
happened yesterday, at about 18:30 hours at Magalausha farm on great east road
in Chongwe district.
Ms Katongo says the
accident happened when the driver who is the father to the victim was reversing
a Hino Ranger truck registration number ALM 2954 within the yard and ended up
running over his 3 years old son.
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