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Bus accident claims the lives of 42 people in Limpopo [SOUND]

# Forty-two people, including seven children, were killed when a passenger bus overturned outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo on Sunday. According to preliminary reports, the bus believed to have been transporting passengers from Zimbabwe and Malawi, who were travelling from the Eastern Cape to their home countries, veered off the road along a steep mountain pass and plunged down an embankment. Over 30 passengers have been hospitalised. Limpopo premier Phophi Ramathuba’s spokesperson, Thilivhali Muavha, says the premier will visit the accident scene later today:

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