‘I’m hurt I lost my mom, but comforted my child is alive’: Mother of 8-year-old who survived Easter bus horror

Pilgrims’ Easter bus horror sees 45 plunge to their deaths as one girl survives

31 March 2024 - 00:00 By Lucas Ledwaba

Long, dark skid marks on the tar, fragments of clothing hanging from trees, a passenger’s cooking stove lying among the charred wreckage...

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