Staff Reporter
Eight members of the Rutsito family, seven from the Chitimbe family and three people, who are still to be identified, died in a horrific road accident Sunday afternoon in Mutoko.
Both families are from Mutoko.
The accident occurred along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway when the Isuzu KB double cab truck belonging to the Rutsito family and travelling towards Murewa, collided head-on with a BMW in which the Chitimbe family had boarded a lift that was travelling towards Mutoko.
Fourteen people died on the spot, while the remainder succumbed to their injuries on admission to Mutoko Hospital.
The director in the Department of Civil Protection Nathan Nkomo said the government will assist in the burial of the deceased.
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