DNA to Identify South African Children Killed in Taxi Crash

It will take one week for DNA tests to identify the 18 children who were "burnt beyond recognition" when the minibus that was transporting them and a truck collided, Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says.

The wreckage of the minibus and a truck that collided on the R25 between Verena in Mpumalanga and Bronkhorstspruit. Twenty people, 18 of them schoolchildren, were killed.

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