By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Thirty-three people died in a horrific collision between a fuel truck and a crowded bus in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the weekend, police said.
The victims were engulfed by a “huge fire sparked by the collision” overnight on Saturday in the west of the country, local police captain Antoine Pululu told the AFP news agency on Monday.
Another police source said the bodies were destroyed by the flames, adding that the remains that were recovered were buried on Monday.
The inferno occurred near the village of Kibuba along National Route 1 approximately 80km (50 miles) from the capital Kinshasa.
Recall that an oil tanker accident in October 2018 killed 53 people along another main road into Kinshasa in October 2018.