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Updated: February 14, 2023

South Africa: 20 Dead As Bus, Armoured Truck Collide

By Rasheed Olajide Awoniyi
February 14, 2023
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A Bus And An Armoured Truck Collided In South Africa Killing 20 People.

A collision between an armoured truck and a bus has killed 20 people and injured another 60 in South Africa's northern province of Limpopo, the regional transport department said on Tuesday.

"Twenty people were tragically killed in an accident, where a cash-in-transit truck lost control and collided head-on with an oncoming bus" on a highway on Monday, the department said in a statement.

Police divers were searching a river that runs along the highway "for people who might have been swept away."

The cause of the accident is under investigation, however, heavy rains have been drenching the region in recent days, a spokesman for the department, Tidimalo Chuene, stated.

Downpours have caused flooding in several regions of South Africa in recent days, killing at least seven people and leading the government to declare a national disaster.