At least 47 people were killed when a bus collided with a truck in south-central Togo, dpa cited police as saying Wednesday. Some 16 others were injured when the truck tried to overtake another vehicle on the West African nation's main north-south highway and smashed into a 56-seater bus with a Burkina Faso license plate. The accident took place near the town of Atakpame, roughly 160 kilometres from the capital, Lome. Among the dead were residents from Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Togo, according to government officials.