HARARE (AFP) - At least 42 passengers have been confirmed dead, Zimbabwe police said on Friday (Nov 16), after a suspected gas tank exploded on a bus, with pictures showing the burnt-out wreckage of the vehicle. "At the moment we know that more than 42 people died," police spokeswoman Charity Charamba told AFP after the accident late on Thursday, with state media reporting that a cooking gas cylinder belonging to a passenger was believed to have exploded igniting a fire. Last week, 47 people died in a collision between two buses on a road between the capital Harare and the city of Rusape in the east. "Combustible material was allowed onto the bus, thus causing a conflagration which entrapped, scalded and consumed innocent passengers," President Emmerson Mnangagwa said in a condolence message.
At least 42 people have died while more than 20 others are injured in a deadly fire aboard a bus in Zimbabwe.