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Chibombo (Zambia)

Type: City

Name: Chibombo (Zambia)

Country: Zambia

Latitude: -14.66

Longitude: 28.07

population: 4,477

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

30 Injured in Chibombo Accident

TEN people were yesterday seriously injured while 20 others sustained minor injuries when a Marcopolo bus they were travelling in overturned at Katuba area in Chibombo District after it developed a fault.The incident happened barely 30 minutes after the ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Mwinilunga (Zambia), Accident, Chibombo (Zambia)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Road Accidents Rock Lusaka and Copperbelt

The worrisome trend of road traffic accidents in Zambia has continued with two recorded on Thursday on the Copperbelt and Lusaka provinces.In Lusaka 33 people escaped with injuries when a Ticklays Bus registration number ABM 9416 overturned after bouncing ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Lusaka, Road Accidents, Chibombo (Zambia), Mufulira (Zambia)

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Kabwe Road accidents: Who is to blame?

MEMORIES$ of$ the Chibombo accident in February this year in which$ more than 50$ people$ perished are still$ fresh but at its heels$ is yet another road traffic accident$ which claimed 18 lives in Chisamba last week. The country$ has been$ plunged$ in ... [Published Times of Zambia - May 06 2013]

Entities: Kabwe (Zambia), Road Accidents, Lusaka, Police, Zambia

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Sacrificed Chibombo accident victims to be buried in mass grave

Government has decided to bury the 17 Chibombo road traffic accident victims in a Mass grave in Kabwe where all the deceased came from.Briefing the press in Kabwe today, Central province Permanent Secretary Annie Sinyangwe said government in the province ... [Published Zambian Watchdog - May 02 2013]

Entities: Kabwe (Zambia), Deceased, Chibombo (Zambia)

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Toyota Hiace

Zambia: 17 Perish in Road Carnage

Seventeen (17) people have died on the spot after a Toyota Hiace minibus they were traveling in from Kabwe to Lusaka had a tyre burst and in the process lost control and hit into a truck before overturning several times at a radius of about 500 metre ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 01 2013]

Entities: Zambia, Lusaka, Chibombo (Zambia), Toyota Hiace, Kabwe (Zambia)

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Zambia bus crash claims 17 lives

Scores perish as bus collides with a truck in Chibombo area ... [Published Africa Review - May 01 2013]

Entities: Zambia, Chibombo (Zambia)

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Thieves break into Nat-Save bank, Kasempa

kaspalamamba on Nigeria oil deal was started by Mwanawasa, I was not privy to discussions-KachingweSeed Inspector on Sixteen people sacrificed in another Chibombo bus accident horrorCry My Beloved Country on Financial Times advises Zambia on tax loss ... [Published Zambian Watchdog - May 01 2013]

Entities: Kasempa (Zambia), Chibombo (Zambia), Zambia, Frank Bwalya

First reported Feb 13 2013 - Updated Feb 13 2013 - 1 reports

Dual Carriageways solution to nasty collisions

THE fatal crash involving a Lusaka-bound Post Bus and a truck which claimed more than 50 lives near Chibombo has once again brought into public spotlight the imperative need to search for appropriate solutions to the road carnage which has exacted a high ... [Published Times of Zambia - Feb 13 2013]

Entities: Zambia, Michael Sata, Chibombo (Zambia), Solwezi (Zambia)

First reported Feb 12 2013 - Updated Feb 12 2013 - 1 reports

Befitting send-off!

ZAMBIA yesterday witnessed one of the most highly-emotional and touching burial processions as people from all walks of life converged to give some of the Chibombo accident victims a befitting send-off.In Ndola, President Michael Sata and First Lady Christine ... [Published Times of Zambia - Feb 12 2013]

Entities: Zambia, Chibombo (Zambia), Michael Sata

Quotes

"We started off from Lusaka around 05:40 hours and when we reached the same spot, I slowed down to drive over the humps, but when I drove over the first hump, I noticed that the steering wheel had become loose such that I could not control the bus, and the next thing the bus over turned" he said

30 Injured in Chibombo Accident [Published AllAfrica.com - May 17 2013]

...beseech the Almighty God to grant the bereaved families comfort and strength during this extremely painful period," a State House statement said. "Urgent practical interventions need to be undertaken to avert this continuous loss of innocent lives on our roads." Early February more than 50 people died after a bus operated by the country's posts and telecommunications company, Zambia Postal Services, collided...

Vehicle Accident - Africa - Zambia [Published RSOE EDIS - Emergency and Disaster Information - May 01 2013]

"He did this by obtaining cash amounting to K5,980,000.00 property of the FRA, through a cash withdrawal at a bank by purporting that he had supplied 92X50 kilogramme bags of white maize to the FRA at Mbila Satellite Depot in Itezhi Tezhi District when in fact not" Mr Silomba said

Zambia: Charles Mushitu Nabbed for Diverting Kr267,000 [Published AllAfrica.com - Apr 14 2013]