Crashes kill 84
NZPA-Reuter Cape Town At least 84 people were killed in two spectacular accidents in South Africa at the week-end. Sixty-seven people were killed when a train and a (bus packed with horhe-going shoppers collided at an unguarded level crossing near ■ Empangeni, an east coast town north of Durban. Eye-witnesses said the bus stalled on the crossing and was cut in half by the train (which was travelling at high speed.
i Many of the victims on s the bus heading for a black • reserve were reported to be : women and children. The police said that in ad* : dition to the dead, 18 ini jured people were taken to ; hospital. Earlier 17 black men were • killed and 26 injured in a : collision at Orkney, west of Johannesburg between a 20- ; ton truck loaded with waste [ dust from a gold mine and a tractor-drawn flat-bed trailer taking the men to work.
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