International Desk : At least 34 people have been killed after a passenger bus collided head-on with a commercial vehicle and burst into flames before dawn in the country's southern desert, officials said.

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Algeria's civil defence agency said one of the North African country's deadliest road crashes in years also left 12 others injured, many with burn wounds.

Media images showed the mangled and charred hull of the bus after the accident near Tamanrasset, a city about a drive south from the capital Algiers.

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Local media reported burnt bodies were recovered from the bus wreck, near the town of Outoul.

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