Traffic accident kills 14, injures 11 in Algeria

A total of 14 people were killed and 11 were injured in a car accident Tuesday’s night in the province of Ghardaia (south of Algiers), the Civil Protection department said.

• The accident took place on the National Road No between Mniaa and Ghardaia provinces when a driver lost control over his Toyota Station car due a breakdown. The vehicle carried more than 25 people. Most of them were children and elderly people from the same family. The road was not paved causing deviation and pushing out the people in the car. Seven bodies were scattered on the road borders. “It is a human massacre. The 10-year-old boy Abdelmalek’s body was divided into two parts,” a survivor told Echorouk.
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• According to security sources, the car took a secondary road to avoid check points at the north entrance of Mniaa province. Echorouk has learnt that provincial officials arrived to Mniaa Wednesday’s morning to attend the funerals.
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• The chief of the National Gendarmerie’s provincial group ordered to open investigations into the accident.