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00:00An accident in Ethiopia killed 71 people on Sunday, after a truck packed with passengers
00:07plunged into a river.
00:10Reuters arrived at the scene of the crash Monday, and found people looking down at the
00:14accident site from a bridge.
00:16A local described what he saw.
00:19It went straight to the river, men and women.
00:23Nobody survived.
00:25Most of the bodies didn't even have complete body parts.
00:28It would have been better if all the corpses were intact.
00:32I was here at the time.
00:34We collected the bodies of men and women and loaded them onto a car.
00:39A spokesperson for the Saddam regional government said local traffic police had reported the
00:43truck was overloaded.
00:45He said some of the passengers were returning from a wedding ceremony, that the road had
00:50many bends, and that the truck missed a bridge and fell into the river below.
00:55Deadly traffic accidents are common in Ethiopia.
00:59Driving standards there are poor, and many vehicles are badly maintained.
01:04In 2018, at least 38 people, mostly students, were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine
01:09in Ethiopia's mountainous north.