At Least 17 Dead in Bus-Truck Collision in Ivory Coast

At Least 17 Dead in Bus-Truck Collision in Ivory Coast
An ambulance, Ivory Coast, in a file photo. Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP via Getty Images
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast—A crash involving a freight truck and a passenger bus in Ivory Coast on Tuesday killed at least 17 people and left several injured, authorities said.

The vehicles collided in Ponan-Ouinlo, a village in the west of the country, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement, without specifying the cause of the accident. An investigation has been launched.