A Hino vehicle, Fuso model, overturned, in the early hours of today, on Estrada Nacional 105, specifically in the Caluquembe Lubango sector, causing the instant death of seven people and serious injuries to 10 other residents .
João Katombela, Huíla
However, one of the 10 injured people, who was transferred to Lubango Central Hospital, could not cope with the severity of the injury and ended up losing his life, thus increasing the number of deaths from seven to eight.
The information was given, today, exclusively to the newspaper OPAÍS, by the head of the Hoque association, Namuele Caita, who was one of the first people with authority to arrive at the scene of the accident, after announcing that that vehicle from the town of Caluquembe with diverse goods, with an emphasis on corn, tubers and others.
According to the traditional authority, this year alone, this is the third case that will happen in the same place, however, this is the one with the largest number of victims. Namuele Caita believes that the tight curves in the section, especially at the entrance to the bridge over the Hoque River, is one of the factors that have been causing accidents.
On the other hand, the head of the Hoque commune believes that the cargo could be the cause of death and injury to more than 17 people who were coming from the town of Caconda to Lubango.
“When it was three o’clock this morning, I received a call saying that there had been a car accident on the bridge over the Hoque River, when I got there, the National Police from here in our commune were there about early At first we managed to find three bodies, when we asked, we found four more, we called the removal team, they removed the bodies and INEMA took the injured to the Central Hospital “, he explained.
