Twenty primary school students and one adult were killed in the accident Thursday evening of the bus bringing them back from a school trip in eastern Uganda, Ugandan police announced Friday.
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“The driver apparently lost control of the vehicle, which left the road, hit a large stone and overturned,” police explained on the social network X, adding that three adults and several children were also injured.
The school bus belonging to King David Primary School in Ndejje, located near the capital Kampala, was returning, according to initial information, from an excursion to Sipi Falls, in the Kapchorwa district (east), the police said.
The accident took place around 8 p.m. (5 p.m. GMT), added the police, who released an image of a seriously damaged and overturned bus, and opened an investigation.
Road accidents are common in this East African country and the rest of the continent.
Forty-six people were killed in October 2025 in Uganda, after a serious collision of two buses, according to police.
According to a police report, 4,434 fatal collisions were recorded in 2024 in Uganda, which killed 5,144 people.
