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The charred remains of the bus are pictured on Monday.
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At least 20 people – mostly miners – died in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Sunday after a bus they were traveling in burst into flames following a head-on collision with a truck, state media reported.
Limpopo’s transport department said on Monday that 20 people died at the scene of the accident, while two others died in hospital. It is not immediately known how many people were on the bus or whether there were any survivors.
The vehicles collided on a main road between the town of Musina and the Venetia mine in northern Limpopo province, the transport authority added.
Murray and Roberts, the employer of the deceased miners, said 18 of its employees who “traveled to the Venetia mine” died in the accident, citing preliminary reports.
The Venetia mine is South Africa’s largest diamond producer.
Videos from the scene of the bus accident posted on social media It showed bodies scattered on the ground and a cloud of black smoke rising from the bus.
Limpopo’s transport department said it would visit the mine “to obtain a full report on the accident”.
This is the second fatal bus accident in Limpopo province this year.
In February, around 20 people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a cash-in-transit truck, it was said at the time.