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Car accident causes two deaths and 14 injured in Benguela province

Two dead and 14 injured is the provisional balance of a road accident recorded this Monday in the province of Benguela, following the collision between two vehicles, the local press reported.

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According to witnesses heard by the Angolan Public Television, the accident occurred in the Benguela/Catengue section, and the two vehicles collided when one of them tried to overtake.

Adilson Francisco, the head of the emergency bank at Benguela General Hospital, said that there are patients with complex fractures, three of whom were referred to the operating room.

"They are polytraumatized patients, so we need to wait a little bit and see the reaction of the patients," he said.

Road accidents are the second cause of death in the country, after malaria, and last year, from January to October, the country recorded 1600 deaths and 9360 injured, in a total of 8106 accidents.

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