A car carrying a family in Tunisia suffered a terrible traffic accident that killed two people on its way back from hospital loaded with the body of one of the victims of Sunday's horrific bus overturn.
In the latest official toll, 26 young people were killed and 17 others were injured, some critically, when a bus plunged from a slope into a valley in the Ain Snoussi district of Beja province, while on a tour of the northwestern city of Ain Draham.
On Sunday morning, a car belonging to the family of the victims carrying her daughter back from the hospital towards the city of Dahmani in the governorate of El Kef was hit by a fatal traffic accident after hitting a train on a railway. Civil and Railway Company.
The Tunisian bus incident caused a state of sadness and anger on social networking sites with the publication of pictures of the bodies of the victims, and prompted stranded families to launch searches for their children in the bus through social media platforms as their news broke after the incident.
Witnesses from the accident area say the road is steep, has a sharp zigzag and is difficult to handle when driving vehicles with loads, especially for first-time arrivals.
Tunisia is known to have a high rate of road accidents, with 1,205 people dying in 2018 due to traffic accidents, according to the National Traffic Safety Observatory of the Tunisian Interior Ministry.