Dozens of worshippers died after a bus headed to an Easter conference apparently “lost control” and “plunged” off a cliff in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Thursday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported.
The crash claimed the lives of 45 people and one person was seriously injured, the country’s transport department said in a statement.
An eight-year-old girl, who survived has been airlifted to hospital, the public broadcaster reported.
According to SABC, the passengers were pilgrims travelling from Gaborone – the capital city of neighbouring Botswana – to a church for an Easter conference.
The crash happened in the Mamatlakala mountain pass between Mokopane and Marken. The bus caught fire after falling, public broadcaster SABC reported.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
