At least 43 people in Zimbabwe are reported to have been killed following a bus accident after the driver lost control and crashed into a tree, report the AFP news agency and The Herald newspaper.

“The bus was travelling to Zambia when the driver lost control at a curve yesterday evening,” Charity Charamba a police spokeswoman told AFP. She added that the accident happened in an area called Nyamakate near the Zambian border.

Cross-border buses usually carry traders from Zimbabwe who travel to Zambia to stock up on goods to sell back home, AFP reports.

Twenty-four injured passengers have been taken to a nearby hospital,The Herald reports