Five people have been killed in a horrific minibus taxi accident on R30 between Allanridge and Bothaville in the early hours of this Saturday morning.
1Life911 paramedics attended to the crash scene to find the 22-seater minibus taxi partially submerged in water.
The taxi driver allegedly lost control of his vehicle, left the road and crashed into a river.
A total of seventeen people were rescued and five of them were taken to hospitals in Welkom.
Unfortunately, five other people died in the single vehicle accident.
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It was not immediately clear if they drowned in the submerged taxi.
This is a developing story…