South African police early today arrested the driver of an
Intercape bus which killed nine Zimbabweans, among them a toddler, in a road
accident near Polokwane on Friday last week.
The bus was travelling from Harare to Johannesburg. Limpopo
police spokesperson Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said the man disappeared from a
hospital in Polokwane at the weekend but was intercepted at Beitbridge border
post by alert police officers.
He said the man had been charged with nine counts of
culpable homicide and would appear before a Polokwane magistrate on Tuesday.
Col Ngoepe withheld the suspect’s name pending his court
appearance and said they were still working on identifying the nine victims.
“The Police in Westenburg outside Polokwane have arrested
the driver of the bus involved in this horrific accident. He tried to cross the
border to Zimbabwe after he was taken to hospital with other 51
injured passengers for medical treatment,” he said.
“As the process of intensive investigations by the Police
was unfolding, especially on the possible cause of that accident, he then
disappeared following his discharge from hospital and fled towards the
Beitbridge port of entry. Police were tipped-off, and swiftly responded and
subsequently, the driver was caught hidding inside goods trailer of a truck
trying to illegally cross the border into Zimbabwe,” he said. Herald
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