Thirteen people have been killed and at least thirty more injured on Monday when a military transport truck flipped over on a major road in the Sierra Leone capital, a military spokesman said.
The open-air truck was carrying more than 40 soldiers from their barracks to a funeral in Freetown when its brakes failed as it descended a steep hill.
It toppled over and slid for more than 30 metres. Eight soldiers were among the dead.
“This is a real tragedy for us,” an Army Official said. “We’re currently investigating what could have happened to have caused one of our own vehicles to have failed in such a catastrophic way.”
