Pretoria: A night-time collision between a packed minibus taxi and a pick-up truck has killed 15 people in rural South Africa, a transport official said on Sunday. Five people were in hospital with serious injuries after the crash at around midnight on Saturday to Sunday near the Eastern Cape town of Maqoma, about 1,000 kilometres south of Johannesburg, provincial transport spokesman Unathi Binqose official told broadcaster Newzroom Afrika.
According to Nam News Network, the drivers of both vehicles were among the dead and an inquest would be opened to determine what happened, Binqose said.