Bus and armored truck collision leaves 20 dead
A head-on collision between a tourist bus and a Transport truck of cash left 20 dead and at least 60 wounded Monday night on a main road in the province of limpopoin the north of South Africa.
Police divers were searching a river that runs alongside the highway for “people who may have been washed away,” the regional transport department said in a statement on Tuesday.
Public transport lost control
#accident The Economic Freedom Fighters in Limpopo have sent their condolences to the families of 21 people who died in a tragic accident involving a bus and a cash-in-transit vehicle near Musina this week. IMS pic.twitter.com/AkZ8f8jlvD
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February 15, 2023
After the crash, the tour bus rolled off a bridge on the N1 highway into a river below, said ER24, an emergency medical care company, whose paramedics were on the scene.
“Three people were found dead on the side of the road and 16 by the river; all were pronounced dead on arrival,” ER24 said in a statement.
“One patient, out of 69 confirmed passengers who were transported to hospital for various injuries, has since died,” he said.
In a head-on accident between a bus and a cash-in-transit van on the N1 in the Louis Trichardt region of Limpopo, twenty people have been confirmed killed and 68 wounded. The bus slid off the highway bridge and landed on its left side in the river below. pic.twitter.com/4zNRBKm2jW
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February 14, 2023
It was not immediately clear how many people the tour bus was carrying. ER24 said that the police were investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident.
The cause of the accident is under investigation, but heavy rains have been flooding the region in recent days, a spokesman for the regional transport department, Tidimalo Chuene, told AFP.
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