Eighteen people were killed and four others were seriously injured in a truck accident in Indonesia's eastern province of West Papua on Wednesday, reports AP citing an official.
"The death toll rises to 18 people after two people died in a hospital," head of the Disaster Management Agency of West Papua Province, Derek Ampnir, told Xinhua by phone.
Previously Muhammad Khairul Basyar, a press official of the search and rescue office in the province's district of Manokwari, said that 16 people were killed and six others suffered serious wounds.
The accident occurred at about 3:00 a.m. local time (1800 GMT) when the truck with 29 people was passing a downhill road in Minyambouw sub-district, Pegunungan Arfak district, the official said.
"The truck hit a hillside. Thirteen people died on the scene, three passed away in a hospital, and six others sustained serious wounds," Basyar told Xinhua by phone, adding that seven others survived the mishap.
The truck was heading to Manokwari district after departing from Anggi, the capital of Pegunungan Arfak district, he said.
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