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A road accident in Swaziland has killed 38 girls and seriously injured 20
others who were on their way to a traditional ceremony where King Mswati III
can choose a new wife, pro-democracy activists reported. 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.
The girls were in an open truck which hit a sedan car stopped on the road.
The
Reed Dance, due to be held tomorrow, 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". Mswati III has ruled Swaziland as an absolute monarch since his
father's death in 1982.
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