Uganda says 71 soldiers killed in crash

Seventy-one Ugandan soldiers were killed and another 41 injured when their huge truck crashed into a concrete barrier at the …

Seventy-one Ugandan soldiers were killed and another 41 injured when their huge truck crashed into a concrete barrier at the side of a mountain road.

"It was a trailer and the soldiers were changing location from eastern Uganda. Apparently no one escaped unhurt," an army spokesman Major Felix Kulayigye said.

The crash, one of Uganda's worst in recent memory, happened last night in Uganda's mountainous east.