Six killed in crash

ELLANIE SMIT

Another mass-casualty accident occurred on Namibia’s roads just after midnight yesterday, claiming the lives of six people while 18 others were injured.

The accident that involved 24 people took place about 30km outside Windhoek on the Rehoboth road, close to the Omeya Golf Estate when an Iveco bus hit a cow and then crashed into a tree.

According to a police spokesman, Slogan Matheus, the bus was travelling from Rundu to Noordoewer.

Five men and one woman were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The deceased have not been identified yet.

According to Matheus five people were seriously injured and 13 less seriously. They were all transported by ambulance to Windhoek state hospitals.

Matheus said the owners of cattle allowed to graze in the road corridors can be held responsible and charged should it be found that they were negligent and knowingly caused a danger to others.

In this case investigations are still under way.

This is the third mass-casualty accident on Namibian roads in the last week. On Thursday an accident near Kalkveld killed three people and another accident on the Oshivelo-Omuthiya road killed four people at the weekend.