OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Eighteen Burkinabe nationals died when a bus they were travelling in crashed near the town of Bouake in central Ivory Coast on Wednesday morning, Burkina Faso’s government said.
“It was a bus that overturned during a failed overtaking,” said Rmi Dandjinou, Burkina Faso’s minister of communication.
(Reporting by Thiam Ndiaga; Writing by Hereward Holland; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)