Sixty-three individuals have died after a number of automobiles crashed on a main freeway in Uganda, police mentioned on Wednesday.
Two buses travelling in reverse instructions “met head on” whereas making an attempt to overhaul two different automobiles – a lorry and a automobile – on the Kampala-Gulu Freeway at 00:15 native time (21:15 GMT), in line with the Uganda Police Pressure.
One of many buses swerved in an try to keep away from a crash, however within the course of prompted a “head on and facet collision” that led to a “chain response” through which different automobiles misplaced management and overturned.
In addition to the fatalities, the passengers of the automobiles concerned and a number of other others have been injured, police mentioned. An investigation has been launched.
The injured have been taken to hospital within the western city of Kiryandongo.
The freeway between the capital Kampala within the south and the northern metropolis of Gulu is likely one of the nation’s busiest.
Following the crash, the police urged motorists to keep away from “harmful and careless overtaking”.
It mentioned this “stays one of many main causes of crashes within the nation”.
