65 killed in Guinea road accident

AFP, March, 2007

CONAKRY (AFP) — Sixty-five people were killed and seven injured in the west African state of Guinea after the lorry in which they were traveling overturned into a lake, medical and police sources said Tuesday.

The accident occurred late Monday near the town of Gueckedou, about 700 kilometres (400 miles) southeast of the capital.

"The vehicle overturned into a lake. There were 65 dead," said a doctor at Gueckedou hospital, who asked not be named.

The truck, carrying 72 people, was heading to a weekly market in Koudou, 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Gueckedou, near the border with Sierra Leone.

A police source said the truck ...