JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A Bulawayo-bound bus crashed in South Africa’s Limpopo province early Thursday, leaving at least four people dead and 31 injured, authorities said.
The bus was traveling from Johannesburg when it lost control and swerved into an embankment on the N1 highway close to the border with Zimbabwe, according to the provincial minister for transport, Violet Mathye.
“So far we have confirmation of four fatalities, while some other people have been transported to hospital. We will give other numbers as we get them,” Mathye told public broadcaster SABC.
The bus was still trapped in the ditch with passengers inside.
The Limpopo transport department said in a statement that the cause of the accident was initially unknown.
The accident occurred around the same treacherous stretch outside Makhado where 43 people were killed during another bus crash in October. – AP
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