Identification Underway For 43 Victims Of Limpopo Bus Crash – Ramathuba
Source: Identification Underway For 43 Victims Of Limpopo Bus Crash – Ramathuba ⋆ Pindula News Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba has said that the process of identifying the 43 people who died in Sunday’s bus crash near Makhado (Louis Trichardt) is still underway. The accident happened when a bus carrying 91 passengers from the Eastern Cape […]
Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba has said that the process of identifying the 43 people who died in Sunday’s bus crash near Makhado (Louis Trichardt) is still underway.
The accident happened when a bus carrying 91 passengers from the Eastern Cape to Zimbabwe veered off the Zoutpansberg mountain and plunged down a steep slope. A total of 40 people were injured. Ramathuba’s office, said:
“Working with authorities from Zimbabwe and Malawi, the province hopes they will be able to run fingerprint comparisons on their side since some of the deceased do not have identification documents.
“It is only then they will be able to repatriate them for their families to have closure.”
Ramathuba said photographs of all the deceased have been taken and encouraged families searching for their loved ones to visit Tshilidzini Hospital to help with the identification process. She said:
“The victim identification team will start collecting fingerprint sets from all the bodies.
“It is anticipated by Wednesday the forensic pathology teams would have concluded postmortem examinations.”
Ramathuba said 17 families had already arrived at Tshilidzini Hospital to identify their loved ones, and the process will continue on Wednesday for the remaining families.
She added that 19 patients have been discharged and reunited with their families in Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Authorities will investigate why the bus travelled such a long distance with so many passengers, she said.
Police have opened a case of culpable homicide, while the Road Traffic Management Corporation is finalising a technical report on the cause of the crash.
