30 die in two accidents in Uganda

Two separate road accidents have claimed the lives of at least 30 people in Uganda.

In the eastern Kapchorwa district, at least 20 people died on Tuesday night after a bus, belonging to the Ministry of Education, fell off a cliff.

The bus was carrying workers of various community-based organisations from western Uganda who were on a sightseeing end-of-year tour to the scenic Sipi Falls in the east of the country.

Barely six hours later, another accident claimed the lives of 10 people in Njeru along the Kampala-Jinja highway in the central region.

According to eyewitness accounts, a lorry ferrying sugarcane rammed into revellers during a cultural war dance known as kadodi popular at circumcision ceremonies among the Bagisu people of eastern Uganda.

Scores others were injured.