Tanzania: ten including school children die in bus accident

Eight school children, a teacher and a driver died after a minibus carrying them to primary school fell into a roadside ditch in southern Tanzania, local media reported citing a police source.

Nineteen other pupils from King David School were injured in the accident on Tuesday morning, the police chief of the Mtwara region, Nicodemus Katembo, said.

The injured are being treated at Mtwara Referral Hospital and investigations are underway to find out the cause of the accident, authorities said.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has sent condolences to the families of the deceased.