Algeria bus crash kills 34 in Sahara region

At least 34 people were killed when an Algerian passenger bus collided head-on with a commercial vehicle and burst into flames in the country's southern desert, officials said. One of the North African country's deadliest road crashes in years also left 12 others injured, many with burn wounds, Algeria's civil defence agency said. Unverified media images showed the mangled and charred hull of the bus after the accident which occurred at around 4 am near Tamanrasset, about a 2,000-kilometre drive south from the capital Algiers. Local media reported burnt bodies were recovered from the bus wreck, near the town of Outoul, 20 kilometres west of Tamanrasset, deep in the Sahara. The civil defence agency said the bus was carrying passengers between Tamanrasset and Adrar, a town of about 2,000 residents to the northwest. - AFP