Twenty-six die in Angolan road accident

Twenty-six people, including four children, died in Angola today after a bus rammed into an oncoming truck near the city of Porto Amboim, south of the seaside capital Luanda.

"A shared taxi burst a tyre and collided with a truck coming from the other side," Joaquim Faustino, the head of emergency services of the area told AFP.

"Twenty-five people died instantly and another died in hospital later," he said.

Road accidents claim the most lives in Angola after malaria.

Angola is sub-Saharan Africa's second-largest oil producer after Nigeria and its third-largest economy.

But its infrastructure is still a shambles and being steadily rebuilt after nearly three decades of devastating civil war.