A bus overtaking a car at high speed slammed into an oncoming minibus south of the Sudanese capital on Saturday, killing 19 people and injuring 15, the official SUNA news agency reported.
“A bus travelling at high speed overtaking another vehicle collided with a minibus coming from the opposite direction,” Shazli Mohammed Saeed, a senior traffic police officer, told SUNA.
All 16 passengers aboard the minibus and three on the bus – including the driver and his assistant — died in the accident on the road between Khartoum and the city of Kosti, SUNA reported.
Road accidents are common in Sudan, where authorities have banned buses and minibuses from some of the main roads at night in an effort to minimise collisions and casualties.
Last September, 37 people were killed and 26 injured in a head-on collision between two buses south of Khartoum.
– AFP