{"id":12377,"date":"2012-07-13T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-3-at-least-19-dead-as-train-hits-truck-in-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:40:13","slug":"update-3-at-least-19-dead-as-train-hits-truck-in-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-at-least-19-dead-as-train-hits-truck-in-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-At least 19 dead as train hits truck in S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Truck hit by train, cut in half<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Victims were farm workers<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Train, carrying coal, was not derailed<\/p>\n<p> (Adds details from emergency services)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Peroshni Govender<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, July 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A train ploughed into a<br \/>\ntruck packed with farm workers at a level crossing in eastern<br \/>\nSouth Africa on Friday, cutting it in half and killing at least<br \/>\n19 people who were on their way to pick fruit, police and<br \/>\nemergency services said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman Joseph Mabusa said it appeared the truck<br \/>\ndriver had badly miscalculated when crossing the track, leaving<br \/>\nhis vehicle directly in the path of a freight train carrying<br \/>\ncoal to Mozambique. It was too early to say precisely what<br \/>\nhappened however, he added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a very gruesome scene. Some bodies are without heads<br \/>\nand some without limbs. Forensic teams are still working on the<br \/>\nscene,&#8221; said Mabusa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The impact carried the truck 200 metres, dismembering the<br \/>\ntrucks&#8217; occupants, thus making it hard for forensic experts to<br \/>\nsay exactly how many people had been killed, he added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver was taken to hospital. His condition is<br \/>\nunknown,&#8221; said Mabusa.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Truck hit by train, cut in half * Victims were farm workers * Train, carrying coal, was not derailed (Adds details from emergency services) By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG, July 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A train ploughed into a truck packed with farm workers at a level crossing in eastern South Africa on Friday, cutting it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}