By Rex Mphisa
SOME Zimbabweans in South Africa have raised alarm over two minors survivors of last week’s bus accident near Makhado (formerly Loius Tritchadt), now kept at Siloam Hospital in that country.
According to a voice note accompanying an image of the two children posted on several social media platforms, the children had not been claimed by anyone.
“The two children were not injured in the accident. A Zimbabwean who has an injured child saw them. They were taken there along with injured people from the bus. Please spread this message so the children can find their relatives,” said the voicenote.
Five people have died and 34 others were hospitalised after the Musina bound bus carrying Zimbabweans plunged off a cliff on the N1 highway towards Musina outside Louis Trichardt last Thursday.
It is believed the driver lost control and the bus plunged down an embankment.
Limpopo’s Transport and Community Safety Department said the bus was travelling from Gauteng to Musina, where the passengers were going to catch another bus to proceed to Zimbabwe.
Three people were trapped underneath the wreckage.
Authorities say the bus was ferrying 39 people.
The crash happened at the same spot where last October another bus accident claimed the lives of 43, 38 of them Zimbabweans and the rest Malawians.