MADRID, 18 (EUROPA PRESS)
At least one person has died and 44 others are missing in central Benin after a bus carrying 54 passengers crashed into the Ouemé River, the African country's Interior Minister, Alassane Seidou, announced Sunday.
"The driver of this public transport vehicle traveling from Lomé to Niamey lost control of his vehicle after violently impacting the railing of the bridge over the Ouémé River before ending up in the water," the Beninese minister explained in a statement, adding that nine people were rescued and are receiving treatment in a hospital in the municipality of Savé, in the east of the country.
The accident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning near the municipality of Thio, in the province of Glazoué, requiring the deployment of "all" resources to evacuate the injured, locate the missing, and recover the car, Seidou added, taking the opportunity to offer his condolences to the families of the only fatality recorded so far.
