By Our Foreign Correspondent
It was a sad end for twenty-three Christian women as they were crushed to death on their way to Church programme.
The twenty three, members of a Zambian church, died Monday when their speeding vehicle ran off the road in the north of the country
According to Police sources, Tlthey were riding in a truck heading for Nsumbu, 780 kilometres north of the capital Lusaka, for a church conference.
“Seventeen people died on the spot while six others died upon reaching Nsumbu clinic,” Police spokesman, Rae Hamoonga, said in a statement, adding that 27 others were injured.
Police blamed the driver for excessive speed saying he was negotiating a curve, lost control, causing the truck to overturn.
Deadly traffic accidents are common in Zambia due to the poor state of the roads and bad driving. (Courtesy, excluding headline, AFP)
