{"id":81205,"date":"2026-01-20T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81205"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:55:30","slug":"13-schoolchildren-killed-south-africas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/13-schoolchildren-killed-south-africas\/","title":{"rendered":"13 schoolchildren killed in crash between school bus and truck in South Africa\u2019s Gauteng province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tragic road accident in <a title=\"45 dead in bus crash in South Africa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/45-dead-in-bus-crash-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa<\/a>\u2019s Gauteng province has claimed the lives of 13 schoolchildren after a school transport vehicle collided with a truck in the city of Vanderbijlpark early Tuesday morning. Police said three other students were injured in the crash, which occurred at around 7:00am local time.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Police confirm fatalities and injuries<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Authorities reported that the school bus and the truck collided in Vanderbijlpark, with 13 students pronounced dead at the scene. Police added that three students were taken for medical treatment after sustaining injuries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ep5vrB7rDh\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/mauritius-island-is-shining-why-south-africans-are-buying-property-in-mauritius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mauritius Island is shining&#8230;Why South Africans are buying property in Mauritius<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Mauritius Island is shining&#8230;Why South Africans are buying property in Mauritius&#8221; &#8212; Travel News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/mauritius-island-is-shining-why-south-africans-are-buying-property-in-mauritius\/embed\/#?secret=ZQIHjDWrBh#?secret=ep5vrB7rDh\" data-secret=\"ep5vrB7rDh\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ramaphosa: Families will receive psychosocial support<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa said he was deeply saddened by the deaths and pledged support for those affected. In a statement, he said psychosocial assistance would be provided to the families and friends of the victims and that measures would be taken to prevent similar tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren are the most precious assets of our nation,\u201d Ramaphosa said, calling for stronger efforts to protect children in every aspect of school transportation \u2014 from enforcing traffic rules to ensuring the quality and safety of vehicles used to carry students<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"13 Children Killed In South Africa School Transport Crash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l7cRjMXelww\" width=\"951\" height=\"535\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tragic road accident in South Africa\u2019s Gauteng province has claimed the lives of 13 schoolchildren after a school transport vehicle collided with a truck in the city of Vanderbijlpark early Tuesday morning. Police said three other students were injured in the crash, which occurred at around 7:00am local time. Police confirm fatalities and injuries &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10708,2536,80388,80391,14240,339,12386,80390,80389],"class_list":["post-81205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bus","tag-crash","tag-gauteng","tag-ramaphosa","tag-school","tag-south-africa","tag-students","tag-truck","tag-vanderbijlpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81208,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81205\/revisions\/81208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}