Bus Crash in Western Cameroon Kills 37, Injures 18

Bus Crash in Western Cameroon Kills 37, Injures 18
A car drives on a street of Buea, South-West Region of Cameroon, on April 26, 2018. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon—More than 37 people are dead and 18 others seriously injured after a bus crash in Cameroon’s western village of Nemale, officials said.

A 70-seater bus was on its way to the capital, Yaounde, from the western town of Foumban when it crashed into a truck while trying to avoid a crowd of people on the road around 2 a.m. Sunday, said Absalom Monono Woloa, a senior government official in the area.