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  • Lorry rams into classroom in Uganda, kills three students

    Lorry rams into classroom in Uganda, kills three students

    At a school outside the capital of Kampala, three Ugandan pupils have been killed after a vehicle crashed into their classroom.

    Reports say at least 18 additional students got hurt in the incident on Tuesday afternoon at Kasaka Secondary School.

    The vehicle tore up a portion of the roof after entering the structure about halfway.

    Uganda police say the lorry driver lost control and drove through the school fence before hitting the school’s computer laboratory that was occupied by students.

    The driver, a 26-year-old man, has been arrested to help with investigations, police said.

    The school is located in the country’s central district of Gomba, about 130km (80 miles) away from Kampala.

    Learning has been suspended for week and the students have been sent home.

  • Lorry drivers ‘found after escaping from test centres’

    The authorities in Uganda have arrested seven lorry drivers out of 25 others who escaped from a coronavirus testing centres on the country’s border with Kenya.

    The drivers had been tested at Elegu and Malaba border posts where they returned positive tests.

    The seven were found in Ndeeba area, on the southwestern edge of the capital, Kampala, which is 191km (118 miles) from the border.

    The authorities are now tracing their contacts, National Covid-19 Response Incident Commander Ateka Kagirita told the Daily Monitor newspaper.

    “The operation is ongoing to hunt down all the drivers who escaped into the community after testing positive. We are working day and night to get who they got into contact with, establish where they slept to ensure there is no positive case in the community,” he is quoted as saying.

    In Kenya, two lorry drivers who escaped from a testing centre before their results came out were intercepted in the lakeside city of Kisumu, a two-hour drive from the border, and put under isolation, the Daily Nation Newspaper reports.

    The drivers, one from Uganda and the other from South Sudan, entered the country through the Busia border. They both tested positive.

    Source: bbc.com

  • Woman survives after lorry lands on her car

    A 26-year-old woman is being treated for serious injuries after a lorry landed on top of a car in the coastal town of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

    Independent ambulance company Netcare 911 were among the medical workers to respond to the scene of the accident on Tuesday afternoon.

    The woman is said to have sustained multiple injuries throughout her body, including fractures, according to Netcare911.

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    “The truck was squashing both her and her car. Parts of it had to be cut off in order to free her,” Shawn Herbst told BBC News.

    “Her level of consciousness was low when we arrived but it was managed on the scene through advanced life support before she could be transported to a nearby hospital,” Mr Herbst added.

    The woman is believed to have been trapped in the wreckage for at least 40 minutes.

    A case of reckless and negligent driving is being investigated against the driver of the lorry, local media are reporting.

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    The driver had apparently left his car to go and fetch his child from a primary school in the vicinity.

    “When he returned to his truck, he noticed it was no longer parked where he had left it. He then noticed that the truck had rolled forward and collided with an Opel Adam,” HeraldLive quote police spokesperson Sandra Janse van Rensburg as saying.

    Source: bbc.com