In Tanzania, 12 people died Friday at Bagamoyo when a lorry ploughed into a stationary bus and passengers who had stopped at the scene of an accident that had occurred a few minutes earlier on the Chalinze-Segera highway.
Twenty-five people were injured, some seriously, in the twin accidents in Makole Village, Bagamoyo District.
All those who died are Kenyan women, who were members of a Presbyterian Church delegation that was travelling to Dar es Salaam to attend a gospel music concert.
local media quoted eyewitness, Mrisho Ali who said on Saturday that the accidents involved two Kenyan registered buses that were travelling about half a kilometer apart when one of the vehicles overturned into a ditch after one of its tyres burst.
He said the driver of the other bus, which was several kilometres away, turned back and drove to the accident to offer assistance after his fellow driver had informed him of the crash by telephone.
As the rescuers were about to finish assisting their fellow travellers, a lorry ploughed into the group and the bus parked on the roadside, killing seven people on the spot.
Five others died at the scene before they could be taken to hospital.
The truck dragged the bus and some of the victims about 50 metres before colliding with another lorry and landing in a gulley.
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