Around 18 people drowned after a bus fell off a bridge and into the river in the eastern part of Algeria, with several others injured. The cause of the crash is still unknown
Several people have died after a bus went off a road and fell from a bridge into a river.
Around 9 people are injured with at least 18 dead after the terrible accident in East Algeria. Emergency services rushed to reports of the incident, which happened on Friday afternoon.
The bus was in in the El Harrach area when it veered off the road and plunged into the Oued El Harrach river, in the Mohammadia district. Passengers were blue-lighted to a local hospital where two were treated for severe injuries.
According to local reports, 18 people are to have drowned. Residents jumped into the scene head-first in a bid to rescue those involved, before the Civil Defence crew arrived.
Algeria’s Civil Protection Service said in a statement that 25 ambulances, 16 divers, and four boats took part in the search. Shocking footage shows how rescue teams are seen carrying broken parts of the bus out of the water. The cause of the crash is still unknown, according to The Sun.
In 2023, 34 people died while 12 more were injured in a horrific bus crash that caused an inferno, gutting the vehicle.
The horror incident took place in the village of Atoll in Tamanrasset state in the north African country of Algeria. Images from the scene showed a bus completely gutted by flames, lying on the roadside as a twisted, mangled wreck.
The Mirror reported that Algeria’s Civil Protection unit confirmed that the death toll from the bus crash had left 34 dead with another 12 injured.
MEHR news agency reported that in 2021 Algeria recorded almost 7,186 traffic accidents, resulting in 2,643 deaths and 11,479 injuries.
Speed is the main cause of crashes in the North African country, according to a government road safety agency.
In January this year eight people from the same family, including five children, were killed in a car crash in eastern Algeria when they collided with a truck.
In February a bus traveling from the Algerian capital Algiers to Tikjda, a mountain resort popular with tourists, fell 150 meters into a ravine near the town of El Asnam, killing Ten people.
In 2016, a truck collided with a bus which burst into flames in the small hours near the city of Aflou, 248 miles south of the capital, killing 33.
Thirteen people died and eight were injured in the Oued Khebaza locality in Naama province, 400 miles south of Algiers, in September 2021.
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