Horror scenes as eyewitnesses explain how passengers were burnt to death in Masvingo-Beitbridge road accident
Eyewitnesses narrated the horror of seeing passengers burn to death in a road accident along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Road yesterday.
A South African-registered Ford Ranger collided head-on with a haulage truck at the 223km peg along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Road at Bubi, 65 km north of Beitbridge, at around 8 am. The Chronicle reported that 7 people perished in the accident.
An eyewitness at the scene shared a video of the raging accident scene. The South African-registered Ford Ranger and the goods truck were furiously blazing, with dark fumes blackening the clear sunny skies.
Witnesses were daunted by the raging inferno and stood afar as they watched the two vehicles flaring. They were terrified of the violent flames and could only hear the last agonising screams of the helpless victims whose lives were stuck in the fire.
The eyewitness who captured the accident scene gravely recounted in the video:
“Pakaipa pakaipa pakaipa pakaipa. Rori yarovana nemota vanhu vari kutsvira mukati memota izvezvi kutaura kwatiri kuita. Rori iri ku bvira iyi. Iyo mota iyo vanhu vari mukati diki iyo vanhu vari mukati. Vari kungotsva varimo.”
