By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sixteen people were killed and 33 injured in two separate road accidents in central Syria on Saturday, the official SANA news agency reported.
The report said a minibus with 14 passengers on board collided head-on with an incoming truck on the Damascus-Palmyra road, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Damascus, killing 12 people and seriously injuring two. Both remained in a coma.
Elsewhere, four people were killed and 31 injured, some seriously, on the Damascus-Homs highway, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Damascus, when a speeding bus with 50 passengers collided with a truck loaded with oranges, SANA said.
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