38-girls killed and 20 injured in road accident en-route to Swaziland beauty pageant

It was a tragic road accident in Swaziland when 38 girls were killed and 20 0thers were seriously injured as they were en-route to a traditional ceremony where King Mswati III can choose a new wife. It is a beauty pageant and the participants perform the traditional Reed Dance.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 30 August 2015.

The accident happened when the open truck in which they were traveling smashed into a car on the road between the two main cities of Mbabane and Manzini – the girls were going to Reed Dance. This dance is a sort of beauty pageant and it attracts tens of thousands of young virgins. They will dance before the polygamist king, and he can select one of them as a new wife.
Incidentally, Mswati III, Africa`s last absolute monarch, had selected his 14th wife at the celebration held in 2013. He has ruled Swaziland as an absolute monarch ever since his father`s death in 1982.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)


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