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DANGEROUS ROADS * Guinea - 70 reported killed in a truck crash
Conakry,Guinea -Associated Press, by ABOU BAKR -21 March, 2007: -- A bridge collapsed under an overloaded truck in Guinea, throwing scores of passengers into a river and killing at least 70, witnesses and the West African country‘s state radio said Wednesday... The 50-year-old rock and concrete bridge collapsed as the truck was crossing, tipping the vehicle and sending people as well as bags of cement and sacks of rice crashing into the river. Many of the passengers drowned, trapped under the cargo, RTG said... In rural areas where buses are rare, large open-backed trucks are often a main form of transport — carrying grain sacks, sheep, bicycles and people. Trucks are often piled high with merchandise, and then passengers climb on top, or hang onto the sides...
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