Ten people were killed and seven injured in southern Burundi when a drunk driver plunged a bus into a valley on Christmas day, Burundian police said.
Another five were killed and 21 gravely injured when a taxi rammed into a crowd of people coming out of Christmas mass in the southern province of Makamba, provincial police chief Emmanuel Bizimana said.
"The cause of the accidents was high speed, and the drivers of those vehicles were drunk," he told Reuters.
Deadly road accidents are common in the central African nation, where most of the population rely for transport on poorly maintained minibuses driven at breakneck speed across rough roads.
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