SEVEN South African nationals died in a car accident in Botswana on their way back home after a church service.
The South Africans were among 14 people who attended a church service in Kanye on Tuesday, 28 April. Kanye is 80km southwest of the capital, Gaborone.
Botswana police spokesman Dipheko Motube confirmed the recent incident.
According to Motube, the accident involved two cars, a Ford Ranger with four passengers and a Toyota Hiace taxi with 14 Mzansi citizens onboard.
"The seven SA citizens, including five females and two males aged between 37 and 72, were certified dead while the rest of the passengers, four females and three males, were admitted to hospital with different injuries.
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"Four passengers from the other vehicle, being Botswana nationals aged between nine and 39, are also admitted to hospital with serious injuries while drivers of both vehicles escaped with minor injuries," Motube said.
He confirmed that police investigations to establish the cause of the accident are ongoing.
The incident follows the tragedy at the start of the Easter weekend when 45 people from Botswana were killed in a bus crash in Limpopo.
Easter weekend death
On Thursday, 28 March, on the R518 outside Mokopane, Limpopo, congregants from Gaborone in Botswana were en route to the annual Easter Pilgrimage at the St Engenas ZCC in Moria, Polokwane, when the bus driver lost control, and it plunged into the bridge, resulting in 45 deaths.
Remarkably, an eight-year-old girl emerged as the sole survivor.
To this day, all 45 victims involved in the accident have successfully been identified.
This was done by the police's forensic science laboratory and victim identification units.
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