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Thirteen people were killed in an accident at KZN.
- UMshwathi Township has positively identified all of the people who died in the Greytown crash.
- A fuel tanker and a minibus taxi were involved in the accident.
- Now a multidisciplinary team of experts has been created to investigate the cause of the accident.
The uMshwathi Municipality confirmed that it has positively identified all those killed in Tuesday’s horrific accident between a fuel tanker and a minibus taxi on R33 / R614 near Wartburg in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
Municipal spokesman Sibusiso Mkhithi described the scene of the accident as a “catastrophe”.
He said they had managed to identify 10 people on Tuesday, while the two remaining bodies were identified on Wednesday.
One of the victims was a pregnant woman; the fetus also died.
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“When the families arrived at the scene, we couldn’t let them get too close, because the fuel tanker was still leaking and could explode [into flames] at any time, “Mkhithi said.
According to the KwaZulu-Natal Transport MEC, Bheki Ntuli, most of the passengers traveled in the minibus taxi from eMpolweni to Pietermaritzburg.
He said that the deceased were 10 women, including the pregnant woman, and two men.
“A multidisciplinary team of experts has been set up to investigate the cause of the horrendous accident,” Ntuli said.
On Tuesday, police spokesman Colonel Thembeka Mbele alleged that a truck driver had failed to stop at a stop sign, causing the taxi and tanker to crash.
The truck driver is still on the run.
