Iringa crash: 23 dead in collision between bus and truck
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mwananchi
A bus operated by Maokoto Bus Services collided with a goods truck at Kiponzero, on the Iringa–Mbeya road, killing 23 according to the authorities. Families are collecting bodies from Iringa’s regional hospital for funerals, and road accident deaths have reached 68 in 32 days, according to the Iringa regional police.
Twenty-three people died on Monday 9 November 2026 in a collision between a bus of the Maokoto Bus Services company and a goods truck, at Njiapanda ya Kiponzero, near Masumbo, on the Iringa–Mbeya road, in Tanzania. According to the Iringa regional police, the bus reportedly suffered a braking system failure and entered the main road without the driver being able to control it.
Families are collecting the bodies from Iringa’s regional referral hospital for funerals, some of which are to be transferred to Mwanza and other localities. Among the victims are ten men, nine women and two children; five people were injured.
This accident is part of a series of tragedies: between 8 October and 9 November 2026, 68 people died in road, sea and rail accidents in Tanzania. On 8 October, a Green Line bus had crashed head-on into a truck loaded with timber at Mkambarani, in the Morogoro region, killing 28. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has called for more road checks after that deadly collision.
