By Own Correspondent| The death toll in the Mashava commuter omnibus accident has risen to 5 following the death of two more people at Masvingo General Hospital where those injured were admitted.

Three people died on the spot while 16 others were injured when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in burst a tyre resulting in the vehicle overturning.

The accident happened around 11 am Monday morning in Mashava, along the Bulawayo-Masvingo highway.

When journalists from the national broadcaster arrived at the scene of the accident, bodies of the deceased had not yet been collected while the injured had been ferried to Masvingo General Hospital.

Villagers from Mashava who assisted in lifting the injured onto ambulances said the commuter omnibus was overloaded and appealed to drivers of public service vehicles to exercise extreme caution on the roads.

ZRP Officer Commanding Masvingo District Chief Superintendent Godwin Chikuma said the three who died on the spot were all female, revealing that one of them was an expecting mother.-StateMedia