“Culpable homicide ... and failing to stop after an accident has been recorded for investigation. Police are still at the scene,” said Mbele.
The road is closed while emergency services clean up the spillage caused by the truck, a tanker, which was carrying petrol and diesel.
ER24's Russel Meiring said that when paramedics got to the scene they found the minibus upright in the middle of the road and the truck on its side on the side of the road. Local authorities closed off the road while medics tended to the patients.
He said several passengers were injured and that two were found trapped in the taxi.
“On assessment, medics found that 13 people had fatal injuries. Nothing could be done for them, and they were declared dead,” said Meiring.
The cause of the accident is unknown.
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