AN Iveco bus carrying 28 passengers overturned on the Otjiwarongo/Okahandja road at 01h00 this morning, killing two people.
According to the police the accident happened on the B1 about 70km outside Otjiwarongo on the way to Okahandja after the bus driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle causing it to overturn.
Other passengers sustained serious injuries and the identities of the deceased are still to be determined.
Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide.
In another accident, two people died in a head-on collision on the same stretch of the north-bound B1 outside Okahandja, about 30km from the town, on Monday also at about 01h00.
The two deceased have been identified as Jafet Amakati (44) and Johny Lusiano, whose age is unknown.
Lusiano was the police driver assigned to sports minister Jerry Ekandjo.
The minister was not in the car at the time of the accident.
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