Bus accident kills three pupils eastern Algiers
The accident victims. Photo: copyright
Three pupils perished and a woman was injured with another pupil with varying wounds in a horrific traffic accident that was caused by a passengers bus in a dangerous curve, on the National Road No. 69 which links between Kolea City and Oued Mazafrane, specifically in the district of Keserli Ahmed.
Gruesome accident was caused by a crazy bus which was traveling at high speed, despite the dangerous road and curves.
Accident occurred at about 7:30 am, when the schoolchildren were waiting on the edge of the road for transport buses to go to their educational institutions, where a large number of pupils were surprised by a bus-type Hyundai that walked quickly and surpassed another bus to transport university students, despite the dangerous curve, speed bumps and a daily guard to secure the passage of pupils in the road.
Bus driver lost control of the vehicle and went straight towards the pupils, causing a traffic disaster, and killed three pupils who were studying in a middle school “Brothers Maameri” in Kolea, and it comes to Latreche Abdelkader, 15, who studies in fourth-year middle school and Seghouane Zouhir, 15, in the first-year, and Fabbouh Loutfi, 13, in first-year, and caused injuries to the mother of Latreche Abdelkader, in her 50’s, and the pupil, Chouiheb Younes, 12, and studying in the same institution.