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August, 30 - (The Global News Desk 115) - A bus Ferrying church visitors collided with a truck in central Zimbabwe, bringing about dozens of deaths.  The accident occurred near the town of Chivhu. The law enforcement department reported on Saturday that a bus accident in central Zimbabwe led to 27 deaths.  The minibus, which was carrying worshipers, collided with a truck, leaving 7 more injured.  Authorities said that Adherents of a native African Christian group, recognized for their white robes, were en route to a conference on Friday when their vehicle rammed into a truck on a main highway close to Chivhu, approximately 141 kilometers south of Harare.  The deadly mishap happened when the truck was trying to overtake another vehicle; the foreign-registered haulage truck collided with the minibus. According to a police officer's statement, both vehicles had an "unspecified" number of passengers on board. The accident happened when the overspeeding truck st...

August, 12 - (The Global News Desk 115)- Local authorities reported that at least 44 people sank after an  overcrowded   boat   capsized in Zimbabwe.  The heart-wrenching accident happened on the world's largest artificial lake, Kariba, in Zimbabwe on Tuesday.  The boat was manufactured for 90 people, but it had more than 112 passengers, five crew members, and an unknown number of children, CPUearlier broke the news on Wednesday, based on ticket sales. One of the eyewitnesses informed the foreign media outlets that 153 people were on the boat when it turned over on Tuesday after being trapped in massive waves. 44 corpses were retrieved from the lake. The police updated the death toll on Wednesday evening through X, a social media platform.