At least 22 people have been killed after a bus crashed into a truck in eastern Tanzania on Friday.

The presidency said the accident also injured 38 people. The police chief of the eastern region of Morogoro, Fortunatus Muslim said, the accident occurred in Melela Kibaoni, some 200km west of the capital city Dar-es-Salaam.

He said the truck left its lane to overtake a motorbike but the driver was unable to control it and it clashed with some vehicles.

On Monday last week, four people were killed in a bus accident outside the southwestern town of Tunduma, near the Zambian border, on its way to Dar-es-Salaam.