KAMPALA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Three more people succumbed to critical injuries, raising the death toll of the Friday night deadly road accident to 22 in Uganda's midwestern district of Kiryandongo, police said on Saturday.
Emilian Kayima, Uganda's police spokesperson, said in a statement a total of 18 adults and four juveniles perished in the deadly accident involving a bus, a beer truck and tractor at Nanda village along the Gulu-Kampala Highway.
The bus was heading towards the capital Kampala from the northern Ugandan district of Lira.
He said 14 survivors who were injured in the grisly accident were airlifted to the capital, Kampala using a military helicopter for medical attention at Mulago National Referral Hospital.
"We continue to thank all those who that have been working in saving lives plus police officers that worked since last evening in service of people," said Kayima.
"We wish quick recovery to the injured. Many road accidents are a result of avoidable human undertakings," he said.
The accident that happened around 8:30 p.m. local time paralyzed traffic along the busy road for several hours as police and rescue teams struggled to remove the bodies and survivors from the wreckage.
The East African country registers at least 20,000 accidents with over 2,000 deaths each year, making it one of the countries with the highest road accident fatality rates in the world, according to police figures.
