At the least 12 dead after affirm crashes into lorry in South Africa

At the least 12 folk derive died after a passenger affirm slammed exact into a lorry in rural South Africa.

The affirm, which had been taking folk home after the holidays, burst into flames after the horrific collision.

Any other 268 folk had been injured – for of them critically – and passengers had been compelled to hurriedly fling their luggage from the smoking break to a nearby toll road.

South African authorities blamed the lorry driver, claiming that that they had tried to defective the tracks ethical forward of the oncoming affirm.

‘The truck driver was as soon as taking possibilities,’ Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi told journalists. ‘He idea that he was as soon as going to cross by.

‘Small did he know that the affirm was as soon as going to hit him. That has payment plenty of lives.’

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Maswanganyi also indicated that the demise toll would maybe well even rise.

The affirm, which was as soon as carrying 429 passengers, had been travelling from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg on Thursday.

Demanding footage reveals allotment of the Shosholoza Meyl affirm in flames after the collision that happened between the communities of Hennenman and Kroonstad in Free Bid province.

The fracture derailed 1/2 a dozen carriages and damaged vitality traces in the enlighten.

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Mthuthuzeli Swartz, acting chief govt of South Africa’s enlighten-owned passenger rail agency, said that the affirm driver and his assistant had suffered minor accidents.

The lorry driver emerged unscathed from the accident.

Mr Swartz told local media outlet eNCA that the lorry towing two trailers was as soon as midway across the music when it was as soon as hit by the affirm and dragged for four hundred metres.

He said that ‘human error’ had introduced about the accident.