DRC: 21 people killed in road accident near Goma
A heavily loaded truck on a road in DRC (illustrative image).
Junior D. KANNAH / AFP
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 21 people were killed on the evening of Friday, March 19, in an accident on a road, 5 kilometers from the entrance to Goma in eastern DRC.
Reached by RFI, Timothée Mwissa Kiense, mayor of Goma reports twenty-one dead and seventeen injured, according to an official report.
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National road number 4 is an important axis for supplying Goma and trucks rotate there all day.
The mayor of the city of Goma specifies that the accident was due to a failure of the braking system.
There was a gruesome accident caused by a truck with the brakes failing.
The road is not dangerous.
It was the truck that had broken down.
Timothée Mwissa Kiense, Mayor of Goma.
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