Thirty people have been killed and at least 40 others injured when a truck crammed with travellers crashed overnight in the Central African Republic, the African peacekeeping force MISCA says.
A truck "carrying close to 100 people" as well as luggage travelling in a convoy escorted by MISCA left the road and crashed into a ravine in the southwest region of Boali, a source from the peacekeeping operation said on Friday.
"The bodies of victims and those injured were transported by MISCA to health facilities in Bangui."
Last week, a similar incident saw 12 people killed and around 50 injured in CAR's southern Mbaiki region.
A chronic lack of infrastructure in the crisis-striken landlocked nation means many travellers are regularly forced to cram into overloaded trucks, which are often barely roadworthy.
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Thousands of people have died and nearly a quarter of the population of CAR -- one of the poorest countries on earth -- has been driven from their homes in the chaos that followed a March 2013 coup against long-serving President Francois Bozize.
France has deployed some 2000 troops to try to stop the killings, and the African Union has sent 5800 troops who will be folded into a new UN peace mission for CAR to begin on Monday.
