Road accident kills 36 in Tanzania's lake zone regions

At least 36 people were killed and 79 others injured on Friday after two buses involved in a head-on collision in the Tanzania's lake zone regions of Mwanza and Mara, police said.
Mara Regional Police Commander, Ferdinand Mtui told Xinhua in a telephone interview that the accident occurred along the Mwanza- Musoma highway, involving a bus christened Jumanne Express with registration numbers T.677 CYC which was heading to Mwanza from Musoma and the other one christened Mwanza Coach with registration numbers T736AWJ ,which was heading to Musoma.
"This is one of the grisly road accidents to happen in this part of Tanzania," Mtui said.
According to police, 36 people died on the spot and dozens severely injured and were rushed to Musoma Regional Hospital for treatment.
Mtui police were still working on the cause of the accident, though earlier investigation show that a driver of the Jumanne Express bus was trying to overtake another vehicle in an area which is very close to a narrow bridge.
"But it was too late for the driver to do what he wanted to do, as collided with another bus," one of the eyewitnesses said, heaping blames on reckless driving.
This is one of the deadly accident to happen in just one month after the one occurred on July 30 in Dodoma, killing 17 people, injuring 56 others after a bus travelling to Dar es Salaam collided with a lorry in Tanzania's central district of Kongwa.