Five die after truck collides with motorbike transport on Yangon-Mandalay highway

Five passengers have died after a 12-wheel truck slammed into a three-wheeled motorbike on the Yangon-Mandalay highway on Tuesday.

Eleven others were injured, including the driver of the truck, according to the Global New Light of Myanmar.

The motorcycle, a sort of tuk-tuk, was carrying 16 female farmers when the crash happened, in Kyaukdaga Township, Bago Region.

Police are investigating the cause.

The Yangon-Mandalay road is notoriously dangerous and nicknamed ‘Death Highway.’

Two died on Saturday after a bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren making a pilgrimage from Yangon to Mandalay overturned at high speed.

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