SIX people have died on the spot after a south bound Toyota Wish vehicle collided head-on with a north bound Sino Truck and Trailer along Great North Road around Ching’ang’auka area between Kafue and Chikankata Boma.
The fatality occurred on 9th January, 2024 around 16:00 hours when driver of the truck, Robson Mwanza, 31, from Matero Compound in Lusaka, failed to keep to his near side lane, hence the collision with the Toyota Wish.
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Confirming the development, Southern Province Commissioner of Police, Auxensio Daka, explains that the driver of the Wish Vehicle, only identified as Coilard, had five yet to be identified passengers.
Daka says the deceased include two male and female adults and a baby approximated to be around the age of 1, having had sustained multiple head and body injuries.
He notes that the truck had four passengers other than the driver, identifying them as 8-year-old Precious Siyambali and 6-year-old Chileleko Siyambali, both of Jack Compound in Lusaka who sustained slight injuries.
Others are Esther Mukuku aged 27, also of Jack Compound, who complained of general body pains and Siyakwembo Loshina, 20, of the same area, who complained of a painful right leg, with all of them taken to Kafue District Hospital where they are receiving treatment.
Daka says the remains of the deceased have been deposited in Mazabuka General Hospital Mortuary awaiting identification and postmodern, while the driver of the truck has been detained in Police custody.
Both vehicles were extensively damaged following the collision.
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