20 killed in bus-truck collision in Haiti

5 Dariya News

Port-au-Prince 09-Jan-2017

At least 20 persons were killed after a bus collided with a truck in Haiti, officials said.The accident occurred on Sunday in the town of Monte Lacrete in the mountainous northern Artibonite province, Efe news reported.Emergency service authorities said that the injured -- some of whom were quite seriously hurt -- were transported to the nearby health centres.This is the first large road accident to occur in Haiti so far this year, although such incidents are a relatively frequent occurrence in the impoverished country because of the precarious nature of public transport, with thousands of people forced to use vehicles of all sorts - many of them not well-maintained and driven by people with little training.Many Haitians live in rural mountainous zones where trucks often become death traps for those using them for transportation.