{"id":2000107149,"date":"2026-04-01T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000107149"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:25:20","slug":"6-killed-55-injured-in-bus-accident-in-central-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/6-killed-55-injured-in-bus-accident-in-central-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"6 killed, 55 injured in bus accident in central Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The accident occurred in Mkiwa Village in Ikungi District when a bus traveling from Dodoma to Mwanza hit a pothole in the middle of the road, causing a front tire to burst and the driver to lose control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singida Regional Police Commander Amon Kakwale confirmed the incident, saying officers at the scene were instructed to secure passengers’ belongings and establish the identities of the deceased and injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ikungi District Commissioner Thomas Apson said the injured and the bodies of the deceased were taken to Manyoni District Hospital and Singida Regional Referral Hospital for treatment and further procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Bwire James, Manyoni district hospital medical officer, the facility received all 55 injured victims — 34 men and 21 women — along with six bodies of those who died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This photo taken on Feb. 24, 2024 shows a road accident site in the Ngaramtoni suburb of Arusha, northern Tanzania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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At least six people were killed and 55 others injured on Tuesday after a passenger bus overturned in central Tanzania’s Singida Region, police and local authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000107151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[99],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000107149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-40","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000107151,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ro.png","alt":"","caption":"This photo taken on Feb. 24, 2024 shows a road accident site in the Ngaramtoni suburb of Arusha, northern Tanzania.","mime_type":"image\/png","width":1023,"height":682,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ro.png","width":150,"height":100},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ro.png","width":300,"height":200},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ro.png","width":768,"height":512},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ro.png","width":1023,"height":682},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ro.png","width":1023,"height":682}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000107149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000107149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000107149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000107152,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000107149\/revisions\/2000107152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000107151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000107149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000107149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000107149"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000107149"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000107149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}