Seven people have been killed in South Africa’s Cape Town after a train collided with a vehicle on Friday.
A senior police official Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut said the accident happened at the Buttskop level crossing in Blackheath when a vehicle apparently got stuck on train tracks.
“The circumstances of the accident are still being investigated,” he said.
Officials have confirmed that some crew members with the Metrorail are receiving “medical and emotional support”.
#ButtskopLevelCrossing Forensic pathologist are on scene to remove the bodies of the victims. SF pic.twitter.com/EBAbzjDW1T
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Spokesperson for the Metrorail, Zino Mihi has said that the seven people who died were in their early 30s and were travelling in a Toyota Hilux bakkie.
“It was … human error. There are booms and a camera, but the bakkie ignored the signals. It was not their time to cross,” she said.
“Before them a taxi did it, thinking they had time.”
In 2010 ten children died at the same crossing when a vehicle collided with a train.
Source: Africafeeds.com
