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Thies, Senegal, 16/01/2004 (News24) – Senegal's Minister of Housing and Construction Salif Ba and his Djibouti counterpart Abdelali Abdallah were injured in a road accident near Dakar on Thursday, Senegalese press reports said on Thursday.
Ba survived with a swollen eye but Abdallah was evacuated by helicopter to Dakar after medical treatment at a Thies hospital, the APS news agency reported.
One or two people are thought to have died in the accident,, which happened 70km from Dakar, when the ministers' vehicle collided head-on with a taxi that was trying to overtake another car, according to radio and television reports.
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