Tanker truck crashes into bus in Ivory Coast killing 13 and injuring 44

A tanker truck crashed into a bus in northern Ivory Coast, killing 13 people and injuring 44, the Transportation Ministry and local media said, Report informs via AP.

The bus and the truck crashed Friday night on the highway between Bouake and Korhogo, two large cities in the country's north. The road’s width had been narrowed by a freight truck parked without indicators, Police Secours, a platform monitoring deadly accidents in the country, wrote.

"The collision between the bus and the tanker truck started a fire of frightening intensity,” Police Secours wrote.