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Thursday February 7, 2013

Government: 53 dead in Zambia bus crash


LUSAKA: Fifty-three people have been killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a truck near the Zambian capital Lusaka, a government official said Thursday.

"I can confirm that 53 people have died in the accident," Harry Kalaba, an official in the vice president's office, told AFP from the crash site 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the capital. - AFP

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