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The Zimbabwe Consulate in Johannesburg is finalising the repatriation of some of the 15 Zimbabweans who died in two separate road accidents in South Africa.
In the first incident, ten people lost their lives on Tuesday when a Mzansi Express bus traveling from Bulawayo overturned near Makhado town in Limpopo Province, leaving 35 others injured.
The second accident occurred near Mokopane town in the same province on Sunday, resulting in the deaths of five more Zimbabweans.
Consul-General Eria Phiri, who visited the scene of the accident near Mokopane on Monday, also checked on the injured at local hospitals.
He reported that the Tamuka Coaches bus involved in the Mokopane accident was carrying 58 passengers and four crew members.
The crash occurred 8 km before the Mokopane tollgate in Limpopo Province, killing five people, including the bus driver.
Phiri stated that 10 injured passengers were admitted to Mokopane Hospital, with six treated and discharged.
Two of the injured, a male and a female, remained hospitalised, while two others requested transfers to medical facilities in Johannesburg to be closer to relatives.
The remaining passengers who were uninjured continued their journey to Zimbabwe.
Voortrekker Hospital admitted 24 injured passengers from the accidents, all of whom have since been treated and discharged.
Phiri confirmed that of the five bodies from the Mokopane accident, four have been positively identified by relatives, while one male victim is yet to be identified.
Repatriation processes for the identified bodies have commenced and the consulate expects most of the victims from the Makhado accident to be repatriated to Zimbabwe for burial by Friday.
Additionally, Phiri noted that the body of Kudzai Ncube, who was shot and killed by a commercial farmer and whose remains were disposed of in a pigsty, was repatriated on Monday evening for burial in Gokwe North, Manoti area.
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