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UPDATE: Girl (5) dies following school bus accident
A more detailed article will be published later today
A pre-school girl (5) from Esselenpark has died following the school bus accident on Monday morning where a minibus taxi transporting Oxford Combined College learners veered off the road and fell into a ditch.
Norkem Police spokesperson, W/O Mahlodi Langa, confirmed that a learner has died and a case of culpable homicide will now be investigated, over and above the initial charge of reckless and negligent driving.
Seventeen patients, including the female driver of the taxi, were taken to Arwyp and Tembisa Hospital.
The little girl died at Tembisa Hospital.
A more detailed article will be published later today.
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