Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Dozens of people were killed and many injured in a multi-vehicle highway-smash in western Uganda after two buses collided head on in the early hours of Wednesday.
Initial reports on X from the Uganda Red Cross Society put the death toll at 63, but that figure was later revised down to 46 by police who said they had included some injured people by mistake.
Uganda Police Force said the crash in Kiryandongo, 125 miles north of Kampala on the main Kampala-Gulu Highway, occurred as each of the buses, which were traveling in opposite directions, were overtaking other vehicles, putting them on a collision course.
In swerving to one side, one of the buses instead precipitated a head-on collision, triggering a chain of events that caused a lorry and a car to lose control and flip over, said police.
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