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50 survive as bus veers off highway

FIFTY PASSENGERS on Wednesday cheated death when the bus they were travelling in lost one of its front wheels and veered off the road along the Huye-Kigali highway. The passengers, aboard a Horizon Bus Coach (registration number UAM 0 19L) en route from Bukavu, DR Congo via Kigali to Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, had mainly Congolese and Ugandan nationals on board.
Traffic police officers and passengers inspect the wreckage of the Horizon bus after the accident on Wednesday. The New Times/JP Bucyensenge
Traffic police officers and passengers inspect the wreckage of the Horizon bus after the accident on Wednesday. The New Times/JP Bucyensenge
Times Reporter