CIBITOKE June 10th (ABP) – A road accident that occurred on Monday June 8 at around 10 a.m. on the RN 10, at Buhoro hill, in Mabayi commune in Cibitoke province (north-west), caused the death of two people and three injured, according to information collected at Mabayi hospital. A woman named Rita Sibomana died on the site, while a second person died in Mabayi hospital before all five victims were transferred to Bujumbura, the economic capital of Burundi, where injured will be able to benefit from care not available at Mabayi hospital, according to the same sources.
Their Toyota Ractis vehicle, registered JA 9547, slipped into a very dangerous turn and overturned. That accident, which is not the first of this kind on that so-called “Manyama” slope, is linked to the driver’s ignorance of the road, according to local sources.
The victims who went on the same supervision mission to the 9th year national competition, 2020 edition, scheduled from June 9 to 11, came from Kanyosha in Bujumbura province (west), according to the provincial director in charge of education in Cibitoke , Mr. Jean Bosco Niyingabiye.