TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - Tunisia’s president is promising to improve his country’s poor road safety record after 26 people were killed in a bus crash - and then a car transporting one of the bodies was reportedly hit by a train.
The Health Ministry on Monday raised the death toll to 26 from the accident when a bus carrying Tunisians on an excursion plummeted off a hill in the Beja region Sunday. Seventeen people were injured.
Local radio Mosaique FM reported that a car carrying one of the victims was struck by a train Monday in the neighboring Kef region, killing a 21-year-old woman.
Mourning the dead, President Kais Saied promised to “do everything in my power to deal with the consequences of the disaster and fix what can be fixed.”
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