One of the North African country's deadliest road crashes in years also left 12 others injured, many with burn wounds, Algeria's civil defence agency said. The civil defence agency said the bus was carrying passengers between Tamanrasset and Adrar, a town of about 2,000 residents to the northwest. Other images shared by Algerian media show rescuers at the scene, near the two burnt vehicles that were involved in the accident. Algeria recorded nearly 23,000 road accidents in 2022, leaving 3,409 people dead and more than 30,000 injured, according to the country's road safety chief Nacef Abdelhakim. In December 2020, a car crash near Tamanrasset killed 20 people and injured 11 others, most of them African migrants.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 19, 2023 16:47 UTC