Verifying footage of aftermath of deadly Uganda bus crashpublished at 10:45 BST
Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist
I’ve been looking at the latest footage posted on social media from Uganda showing the aftermath of a deadly road accident in a remote area of the country in which police say 46 people died, with many more injured.
Four vehicles, two of them passenger buses, collided along the main road from the capital city Kampala to Gulu.
The videos were filmed at night, so we can’t see much of the surroundings, but we can still pick out key details which helped verify the footage when checked against information provided by the police.
We can clearly read the names of the companies operating the buses involved – Nile Star Coaches and Planet Company.
The position of the buses after the crash is consistent with the initial police reporting that the buses collided head-on during overtaking manoeuvres.
In two of the clips, we see the licence plate of the Nile Star bus, which we confirmed with Ugandan police is accurate.
I also conducted reverse image searches on the images and on multiple frames from the footage which indicate that none of them have ever appeared on the internet before.
I’m now monitoring social media for daytime footage which will enable us to establish with more certainty the precise location of the collision, and we’ll bring you more on that as soon as we can.
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