8-year-old child sole survivor as 45 killed in horror bus crash in South Africa

The shocking crash saw a bus fly off a bridge in Mamatlakala, Limpopo, South Africa on Thursday. Reports claim that the bus lost control on a bridge, falling 50 metres over the side onto a mound of rocks and exploding into a fireball.

READ MORE: One in three Irish road fatalities this year were aged between 16 and 25 as campaigner calls for speed limiters A spokesman for the LDTCS said: "The bus had a total of 46 people on board, including the driver. It has a Botswana registration number, and a process to confirm the citizenship of the victims will only commence after the foreign missions of both South Africa and Botswana had verified their citizenships.

"Rescue operations continued until the late hours of Thursday evening, as some bodies were burned beyond recognition, others trapped inside the debris and others scattered around the scene."

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