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One dead and two seriously injured in Uganda crash

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A driver was killed and two people were seriously injured in a collision between two trucks in Nkondo, in Uganda’s Luweero district. The accident happened after four tyres burst on a truck carrying sand, according to the Savannah Regional Police cited by Nile Post.

A driver was killed and two people were seriously injured on Sunday 18 October in a collision between a truck carrying sand and a flour delivery truck on the Gulu-Kampala road in Uganda’s Luweero district, according to the Savannah Regional Police. The victim, Denis Ssegujja, was driving the sand truck.

The accident happened at about 11.50am in Nkondo village, in the Nyimbwa sub-region. The sand truck reportedly burst four tyres before losing control and hitting the oncoming vehicle, Nile Post reports. Regional police spokesperson Sam Twiineamazima said both vehicles were Sino trucks.

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