Reports reaching Loop PNG from a reliable source say that the casualty toll has been put at 20 with 13 confirmed dead while seven are in Intensive Care Unit at the Popondetta General Hospital.
According to Ramsay Afo in Popondetta, the PMV was travelling from Kokoda to Popondetta and the oil palm fruit truck travelling towards Kokoda at a high speed.
Afo, who was at the Popondetta General Hospital, told Loop PNG that the casualties might increase.
The fruit truck belongs to the Higaturu Oil Palms.
