37 killed as bus crashes into truck in Cameroon!

A busy intersection in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde.

• 19 passengers were injured in the crash.

At least 37 people, including 10 women and four children, were killed when their bus hit a truck in central Cameroon, police said on Sunday.

Nineteen other passengers were injured on the bus, which was found in a ravine, Ndikinimeki police commissioner Moantsouog Mempou Paulin told public radio station CRTV.
The bus hit a lorry coming in the opposite direction, he said, confirming the death toll.

The passengers were returning to the capital Yaounde after the Christmas break, Manfred Missimikin of road accident prevention NGO Securoute said.