A bus carrying 54 passengers fell from a bridge to the Ouémé river, in Benin. The emergency services found 27 bodies, but 16 people are not found when research continues.
The results of the accident of a bus that fell in a river in Benin on the night of Saturday to Sunday is now 27 dead, depending on the emergency services, while the chances of finding survivors remain slim.
The Director General of Civil Protection, Abdel Aziz Bio Djibril, told the private media BIP radio Tuesday that research had made it possible to recover 23 bodies when the bus ascentThen 3 others During patrols on the Ouémé river. Nine survivors have been transported to hospital.
The accident scenario
A first body had already been found on Sunday. A civil protection agent, having requested anonymity, confirmed this assessment to AFP and specified that the excavations continued to find 16 missing.
The bus, which transported 54 passengers, had left Lomé (Togo) towards Niamey (Niger). The accident occurred on a road crossing Benin.
The driver would have lost control of the vehicle after violently hitting the railing of a bridge, before switching to the waters of the Ouémé river located below.