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Police Recover $61, 0000 At Accident Scene
THE ZAMBIA Police Service in Chinsali district of Muchinga Province have recovered a total of US$ 61,000 United States dollars from the scene of the fatal Tanzanian Taqwa bus which claimed three lives.
Muchinga Province Police Commissioner Remmy Kajoba has confirmed the development in an interview with the Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) in Chinsali.
Mr Kajoba said 21,000 United States Dollars was recovered from the accident scene while the remainder was recovered from the survivor who claimed that he took it from the deceased body of the bus conductor and wanted to take it back to the owners of the bus.
Mr Kajoba said the money was handed over to the Taqwa Bus Services Managers from Mbeya in Tanzania who came to claim the bodies of their workers and one passenger.
He said that the money was handed over to the company owners in the presence of one of the survivors who also confirmed that this was the money they had on the bus.
Other survivors currently admitted at Chinsali district hospital said they have not lost anything from the accident scene apart from one female passenger who is still unconscious.
The Taqwa Bus Services Managers have also taken all the goods, mainly boxes of body lotions which were on the bus.
Yesterday three people died on the spot in Shiwangándu district of Muchinga Province in the early of today in a fatal road traffic accident involving a Tanzanian Taqwa bus and a truck and trailer.
Five others have suffered multiple body injuries and have been admitted to Chinsali district hospital.
Both Muchinga Province Police Commissioner Remmy Kajoba and Muchinga Province Deputy Permanent Secretary Jewis Chabi have confirmed the accident in separate interviews with the Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) in Shiwangandu.
Mr Kajoba said the accident involving a Tanzanian Taqwa bus registration number T298 BLZ which was coming from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a Tanzanian registered truck number T302 BBR and Trailer number T453 AHP which was coming from Lusaka happened between 04:00 and 05:00 hours at Chikumba Village, 29 Km North of Shiwangándu district along the Great North Road.
Mr Kajoba identified the deceased as Osward Daison Mwawapa the driver, Mapinduzi Gilbert Siwale the conductor adding that the third victim, a passenger has not yet been identified.
The deceased and the five injured are all from the Taqwa bus.
Mr Kajoba explained that the bus was trying to overtake the truck when it lost control and hit into the trailer, horse and flipped on its left side.
The bus which was full of goods from Congo DRC had only 11 people on board while the truck which was also going to Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania was empty.
And Muchinga Deputy Permanent Secretary Jewis Chabi who was found at the accident scene appealed to family members and friends who had their relatives on the Taqwa bus to go to Chinsali and help in identifiying one victim who has not yet been identified.
Mr Chabi has also cautioned motorists not to be over speeding adding that some of the accidents on the Zambian roads are caused by reckless drivers who do not obey traffic rules.
Meanwhile, Chinsali district hospital Senior Nursing officer Stanley Patela has confirmed that the hospital received three Brought In Dead (BID) and five injured passengers.
Mr Patela said from the five injured passengers, four have stabilized while a female Tanzanian patient has been unconscious from the time she was taken to the ward.
The bodies of the three bus victims are currently lying at Chinsali district hospital mortuary.
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Livingstone
March 1, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Sad that the driver has killed passagers on his bus for his recklessness…..RIP
bullet1000
March 1, 2013 at 4:37 pm
road carnage,those buses are just too fast,they have Scania Engines,complete madness.the gov should do something about the time these buses move on the road,,alot of peoples lives are put at risk trucks inclusive
Barotse diaspora
March 1, 2013 at 5:37 pm
Ratsa should impliment stiffer laws ,regulations and moniter traffic in remote area than just concentrating on bribes in the city
K.c.K
March 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm
Some of these buses are coffins, let us commit our lives in the hands of God for safety. May their souls rest in peace if they were born again christians.
SamG
March 1, 2013 at 7:16 pm
My condolence, so sad to the deceased and the woman on medicals. Being comptent drivr is not knowing all out come on the road. Take care u drvrs and drve safly.
k. sinkala
March 2, 2013 at 8:07 am
Is it da zed police i knw handling da money 2 da owners?? wat a devlopmnt.
sniper the philosopher
March 2, 2013 at 11:12 am
Guys i have noticed that the one who was writing this article was very poor in mathematics. I can not recognize this figure
Bernard
March 2, 2013 at 3:44 pm
I think its time the authorities look into Taqua, those guys do not how to drive and they treat passages like cargo. It almost killed us a few months ago. they drive dangerously and they do not listen to passagers. may they rest in peace but Taqua owners should find ways of displining thier drivers.
Mad Rasta
March 2, 2013 at 6:45 pm
For sure thoz busses are too fast and their tendency of movingin convoy shud cease.MTSRIP.
Bernard Chashi
March 3, 2013 at 3:23 am
Thanks ba Kajoba. I know you are the right man for top Muchinga job. Zambians are proud of you.
Seed Inspector
March 3, 2013 at 9:03 am
RTSA my foot, these guys are parasites/ very corrupt.
Uwatambile Baskopo
March 3, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Thank you Zambia Police. Please give this lesson to that man who stole from dead Postbus victims
HB
March 4, 2013 at 4:00 am
WHAT AMOUNT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT,LOOK AT WHERE THE COMA IS PLACED AND THE ZEROS,IS IT $61,000 OR $610,000 OR BETTER STILL $61,00:00
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Nakonde
March 4, 2013 at 5:34 pm
MTSRIP