Thirty-five people have died after a bus carrying more than 100 members of the Zion Christian Church crashed Thursday night near the town of Chimanimani, in eastern Zimbabwe, according to the Zimbabwe Republic Police
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The fatal accident occurred at around 10 p.m. local time , when the bus carrying 106 members of the church"went out of the road and fell into a gorge," the ZRP said on Twitter. Police also said 71 people were injured in the accident."The bodies of the victims were taken to Chipinge Hospital for post-mortem while the injured were referred to the same institution for treatment, with 13 being critically injured," ZRP said.
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