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A bus tumbled into a ravine in northern Ethiopia on Monday, killing at least 28 people and injuring many others, local authorities said.
The bus was travelling from Dessie city in the Amhara region to the capital, Addis Ababa, when it “plunged into a ravine approximately 100 metres deep (330 feet)”, authorities wrote on Facebook.
Twenty-eight people were killed and “many others have sustained minor or severe injuries”, officials said, without providing exact figures for the injured.
Survivors were transported to medical facilities, and an investigation is underway. The total number of passengers on board has not been released.
The official regional Facebook page posted pictures of a nearly completely destroyed car lying on a hillside.
Road accidents are common in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation, where roads are often poorly maintained.
In December 2024, more than 70 people were killed in the south after a vehicle carrying a wedding party plunged into a river, marking the deadliest accident in the country in a quarter of a century.
In September of the same year, a bus swerved into a river in southern Wolaita, leaving at least 28 people dead and 19 others seriously injured.
