Two Portuguese people killed and several injured in bus accident in Namibia | Namibia

Two Portuguese tourists died this Wednesday in the Namib desert in a bus accident, the counselor for Portuguese communities in the country’s capital, Windhoek, confirmed to Lusa. The accident, which involved two buses, also left several injured, according to the Secretary of State for Communities.

José Cesário said that one of the buses was carrying 22 Portuguese tourists, with, in addition to the two fatalities, several injured people, the degree of severity of which he does not know. The injured were transported to the local hospital and their families are being contacted by the Portuguese Embassy in Windhoek, he said.

According to the Secretary of State, there are people of various nationalities involved in the accident.

The councilor of the Portuguese communities in the capital Windhoek, Manuel Coelho, indicated that the accident occurred between 3pm and 4pm local time, minus one hour in Portugal, in the Vale de Kuisebon the way to the largest sand dunes in Sossusvley in the Namib Desert.

​“I confirm that there was an accident between two buses and apparently a third vehicle in a place where there is no internet network, the information is precarious, we know that a bus was carrying 22 Portuguese citizens, two of whom died at the scene, we also know that a third person He died on the way to the hospital in Walvis Bay, the nearest city, but at this moment we do not know his nationality”, the Portuguese counselor told Lusa.

As Secretary of State José Cesário previously told Lusa, there are people of various nationalities involved in the accident. The group of Portuguese tourists, from the north of the country, traveled through a travel agency, added José Cesário, stressing that he has been monitoring the situation.