Police release names of victims of the Blue Circle...

Police release names of victims of the Blue Circle-City Bus crash

Zim Now Writer

Police yesterday released the names of five of the nine victims of the accident involving a Blue Circle and City Bus at the Tshamunanga area of Lutumba in Beitbridge early on Saturday morning.

The five are Taurai Muketiwa (Blue Circle Bus Company assistant driver); Mudarikwa Netsai, 40, from Chegutu; Rangarirai Mbizvo, 43, from Beitbridge; Miriam Majengu (age not given) from Macheke and Clever Chikare (age not given) of Phase 2 Damafalls, in Harare.

The other four victims were yet to be identified by their next of kin.

Witnesses said the buses collided after one of them reportedly hit a donkey and encroached into the oncoming traffic lane, according to witnesses.

Nine people died while 39 others were injured. The bodies of the deceased were taken to Beitbridge District Hospital for post mortem while the injured are admitted at the same medical facility although eight of them who were seriously injured had been transferred to Bulawayo.

“Eight people who were critical have been transferred to Bulawayo, while the other 30 are being attended to at the local Hospital,” she said.