MBEYA, June 9 -- TWENTY-EIGHT people died on Saturday night and eight others were injured in a devastating road crash that occurred along the Mbeya–Tunduma highway at Mlima Iwambi.

The fatal collision involved a Scania truck (registration numbers T 830 EDP/T 148 CTD) transporting flour from Dar es Salaam to Zambia which rammed into a Mitsubishi Rosa minibus (T 257 DVP) and a Toyota Lite Ace (T 185 DMF) after its driver lost control.

All the three vehicles plunged into the Mbalizi River ravine. Among the 28 deceased were 12 women, including two girls and 16 men.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan expressed profound sorrow following a tragic road crash and urged drivers na- tionwide to strictly observe road safety regulations.

“I...