NATALIE NYATHI
Bulawayo- One person has been confirmed dead and several other passengers were seriously injured when two commuter omnibuses were involved in a Road Traffic Accident.
The accident just happened in the sprawling suburb of Cowdray Park this evening.
Eyewitness said that both Kombi drivers were under the influence of alcohol.
The one of the passenger vehicles was coming from the Central Business District while the other was coming from Caravan section of Cowdray Park suburb.
Zim GBC NEWS has established that by the time paramedics arrived at the scene, one passenger had already died and was covered in a blanket and the injures were rushed to hospital.
The survivors are believed to be in critical condition as witnesses said that some of the injures had blood oozing out from both their mouth and nose.
Some residents told this reporter that the deceased is a Kombi driver from the Mtshova Mbaiwa Corporation.
“Lokhu kuyesabisa bakithi, abantu bonke labana abakade sebelaliswe phansi bevuza igazi emlonyeni lasemakhaleni”, said Gogo MaMoyo
This is scary, all those passengers had blood coming out of different body parts and had been placed by the roadside.
A vendors from Garikai section of Cowdray Park doubted in the diseased was the driver. She said,
“Am not sure if l think the now deceased is the Kombi driver “,
More information to follow …..
-Zim GBC News 2023