NOS News•today, 9:31 PM
In South Africa, 45 people have been killed in a bus accident in Limpopo province. One of the passengers, an 8-year-old girl, survived the accident but was seriously injured.
According to news channel SABC News, the driver of the bus lost control of the vehicle for an unknown reason. The bus then fell from a 50 meter high bridge and caught fire on a mountain pass between Mokopane and Marken. The occupants of the bus were residents of Botswana who were on their way to an Easter service in the town of Moria.
Images of the wreck can be seen on social media:
Some bodies are so badly burned that they are unrecognizable. Other bodies were trapped in the wreckage or scattered across the site, the ministry said.
South Africa’s Minister of Transport reports that the bodies of the occupants will be repatriated to neighboring Botswana. “We would like to express our sincere condolences to the families, but also to the government and people of Botswana. We will do everything we can to help so that they can return to their country and families for a dignified burial.”
