23 Church Women killed in Zambian Road Crash
On Monday, police said in a statement that twenty-three women, said to be members of a Zambian church died when their speeding vehicle skid off the road in the north of the country.
They were riding in a truck heading for Nsumbu, 780 kilometres (485 miles) north of the capital Lusaka, for a church conference.
“Seventeen people died on the spot while six others died upon reaching Nsumbu clinic,” police spokesman Rae Hamoonga said in a statement, adding 27 others were injured.
Police blamed the driver for excessive speed saying he failed to negotiate a curve and lost control of the truck which eventually overturned.
Deadly traffic accidents are common in Zambia due to the poor state of the roads and bad driving.
(ChannelsTV)
