At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, the country’s president said.
First international travelers are arriving in China without the mandatory quarantine that had been imposed at the start of the pandemic three years ago.Public prosecutor Cheikh Dieng said the crash happened on National Road No. 1 when a public bus punctured a tire and veered across the road, colliding with another bus coming from the opposite direction. At least 78 people are injured, some of them seriously, he said.
Images of the crash on social media show the damaged buses rammed into each other and a trail of debris along the road. Traffic crashes happen regularly in the West African nation because of poor roads, bad cars and drivers not adhering to the rules, locals say. In 2017, at least 25 people were killed when two buses crashed. Many of those people were heading toward the central town of Touba for the annual Muslim pilgrimage.
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