An eight-year-old girl was the only surviving passenger when a bus plunged off a bridge and into a ravine killing 45 people, the South African transport ministry has said.
The vehicle was taking people from Botswana, a landlocked country bordering South Africa, to the town of Moria in the province of Limpopo, for an Easter weekend church service.
The country’s department of transport said that 46 people were on board, including the driver, and a young child was the only survivor. Local media reports said that the child was a girl.
The bridge the bus fell over and, below, the wreckage
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“According to reports, the driver lost control and the bus fell on to a rocky surface some 50 metres under the bridge and caught fire,” the department said. “Rescue operations continued until the late
