38 Virgins Killed in Bus Crash
A road mishap in Swaziland has killed 38 virgin girls and seriously injured 20
other people who were on their way to a traditional ceremony where King Mswati
III can select a new wife.
The accident happened on Friday night when their open truck smashed into a car on the road between the tiny kingdom’s two main cities, Mbabane and Manzini, en route to the traditional Reed Dance.
“A total of 38 young girls have been pronounced dead, with more than 20 others seriously injured,” Swaziland Solidarity Network spokesman Lucky Lukhele said.
The Swaziland Solidarity Network campaigns for democracy in the landlocked kingdom within South Africa.
“The girls were in an open truck which hit a sedan car stopped on the road,” Mr Lukhele said.
The Reed Dance, due to be held on Monday, is a beauty pageant that attracts
tens of thousands of young virgins who dance before the polygamist king, who
can select one of them as a new wife.
Mswati, Africa’s last absolute monarch, chose his 14th wife at the
celebration in 2013.
King Mswati said the girls’ deaths were a “tragedy in the nation”.
“I would like to assure the parents who have lost their loved ones that the
nation will support them through and through,” the monarch, speaking on the
sidelines of a trade fair in Manzini, said.
“Also those in hospitals, should the need arise for further treatment they
will be taken to other hospitals to ensure no further loss of life.”
Police confirmed there had been “fatalities” but declined to specify the toll,
with police spokesman Khulekani Mamba saying: “We won’t be giving out any
information because the maidens were on royal duty, so there are certain
protocols to be followed before such information can be divulged to the
public.”
Local media gave varying tolls, with government newspaper The Observer
reporting hundreds of injuries and the Swazi News saying seven people had been
killed, six of them girls.
News of the accident has not been broadcast on public television and
journalists were blocked from photographing the crash scene, a local
journalist said.
Mswati III has ruled Swaziland as an absolute monarch since his father’s death
in 1982.
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