Many feared dead in Chivi accident {Watch}

A number of people are presumed dead when four vehicles, including two haulage trucks, collided and caught fire near Chivi Turn Off Tollgate on the Masvingo-Beitbridge route today.

Plumes of smoke billowed from the hulls of two haulage trucks and two light vehicles that took fire at Chivi tollgate on the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway today after two haulage trucks collided.

The horrible incident was caused by two haulage trucks colliding head-on and catching fire, which also started burning two light vehicles that were closely following behind one of the trucks heading from Masvingo.

It is unclear how many people were in all four vehicles and whether there are any survivors as police, fire brigade and first responders from the community around the scene were still trying to put out the fire and rummage through the vehicles and trucks’ shells.

Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa says it is too early to talk about fatalities.

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Plumes of smoke billowing from the shells of two haulage trucks and two light vehicles that caught fire near Chivi tollgate along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway today after two haulage trucks were involved in a head-on collision and caught fire.

“We have our team at the scene right now and as of now, we don’t know whether there have been any deaths, how many people were in all the vehicles and what caused the accident.

“We will have a full picture once our teams have finished investigations at the scene,” he said.

Inspector Dhewa said the only available information is that two haulage trucks coming from opposite directions collided head-on and two small cars following behind one of the trucks also caught fire and were burnt. Herald