BREAKING: Toddler airlifted from bus crash dies in hospital

Emergency services and community members on the scene where a bus carrying passengers between Thafalofefe Hospital and Chebe Location at Centane in Mnquma Local Municipality overturned and plunged 300 m down a hillside.
Emergency services and community members on the scene where a bus carrying passengers between Thafalofefe Hospital and Chebe Location at Centane in Mnquma Local Municipality overturned and plunged 300 m down a hillside.
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The three-year-old boy who was the first to be airlifted from the crash site of the Centane bus accident has died at Frere Hospital.

This brings the total number of deaths to 25, after it was earlier revised to 24, health department spokesperson Siziwe Kupelo confirmed

He said that there was still "one female patient at the ICU at Frere and five others in the orthopedic ward".


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