According to information the bus caught fire due to a suspected technical fault. Two other members of Correctional Services happened to pass the burning minibus and stopped to render assistance and secure the prisoners.

A third Correctional Services van, transporting people from the Barberton Prison to Groblersdal, was on the scene to pick up the prisoners who were travelling in the bus that caught fire.  A farmer from the area assisted in extinguishing the fire.

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No one was injured.