DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 24 (NNN-Xinhua) — Five officials with the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) were killed at dawn on Monday after their car hit a lorry in the country’s southern highlands district of Mbozi in Songwe region.
The Songwe regional police commander, Janeth Magomi, said the TRA officials were chasing a vehicle suspected to have been ferrying contraband goods near Tanzania’s border with Zambia.
“The TRA car was on high speed chasing the vehicle suspected to have been ferrying the smuggled goods,” Magomi told a news conference, adding that the driver of the TRA car lost control and hit the rear of a stationary lorry along the Tunduma-Mbeya road.
The police official said all the five officials died on the spot, adding that the accident occurred at 5 a.m.
She said the suspected smuggled goods were being ferried from Tunduma on the Tanzania-Zambia border to Mbeya region.
Meanwhile in LONDON, three people were killed and two drivers arrested following a serious collision on the M25 motorway involving a lorry, a minibus and a car on Monday evening in southeast England, police said Tuesday.
The motorway remains closed on Tuesday morning after the deadly road accident took place on the M25 anticlockwise near Waltham Abbey in Essex at around 6:15 p.m. BST (1715 GMT) on Monday, Essex police said in a statement.
A fourth person is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after the crash, which caused lengthy traffic delays, the police said.
Essex Police said that the drivers of two of the involved vehicles were arrested on suspicion of causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving. — NNN-AGENCIES
