Arusha. Shock and tears gripped
Babati, the Manyara regional seat, yesterday (Sunday) after a horrific
crash which claimed the lives of its six residents out of seven people
who perished in the early night road disaster on Saturday.
The
grisly accident took place at Getasam village in Maskharoda ward in
Hanang district, along the Babati-Singida highway, shortly before 9 pm
on Saturday, October 14, 2017 and involved a Noah mini-bus and a
trailer.
The Manyara Regional Police Commander Francis
Massawe told The Citizen moments ago that six of the deceased hailed
from Babati and its suburbs.
According to him, both vehicles were heading towards Babati.
He
said the accident happened after the lorry with its trailer rammed onto
the mini-bus with registration number T 140 EJQ after the Noah driver
failed to negotiate a sharp corner.
Some reports said
the deceased and those injured were rushing home after attending a
wedding at the Lutheran Church at Katesh in Hanang district.
The
driver of the Noah, Simba Daudi (46) and his son were among the dead.
Daudi hailed from Endagaw village near Endasak, the point of departure.
Others
who perished were indentified as Felina Hando, Amina Shaha,Elizabeth
Gilonga, John Timotheo. Hiiti Gwandu and Abeid Wilson, the son of the
driver, all residents of Babati.
Those injured have
been identified as Flora Basso, an employee of the Social Welfare
Department in Hanang district, Samwel Nade, Faustin Safari, Filipo Nade,
Lina Isaack, Hassan Iddi and Nicodemus Robert.
The
regional police boss said the driver of the trailer with registration
number Hamza Hussein is assisting the police in the investigations. He
confirmed the couple who tied the knot were not among the dead or
injured.
He said the injured were rushed to Tumaini
Hospital at Katesh in Hanang for treatment and that two of them have
been released.
Some of the injured, according to him, were in critical condition.
Some of the injured, according to him, were in critical condition.
The bodies would be taken to the regional hospital in Babati.
Peter
Hayumwa, a resident of Nangwa village in Hanang, said the road disaster
has happened at the time they were still to come to terms with the
brutal killing of a boda boda rider who was decapitated last week.
The
deceased, Ludovick Surumbu Lazaro, was hired by an unknown person in
the night and his headless body found along a road side a few hours
later. He was buried on Friday.
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