Around 30 people were killed and some 50 were injured when two buses collided in central Chad, the Sahel country’s transport ministry said on Monday.
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The accident happened overnight on Sunday when a passenger bus coming from the capital N’Djamena collided with a bus from Abeche, the country’s third-largest town, the ministry said in a statement.

Abdelaziz Hisseine, secretary of the department (county) of Batha West, put the toll at 33 dead and 54 injured.

“All of the injured have been taken to Abeche,” said Hisseine.
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The ministry statement said an inquiry had been launched.

Fatal traffic accidents are frequent in Chad, a vast semi-desert country, typically caused by excessive speed, bad roads and poor vehicle roadworthiness.

At least eight people were killed in a truck accident in the south of the country in July 2021.

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