No less than 12 people have lost their lives in a train accident in South Africa this afternoon. And bout 180 persons are also injured after the train collided with a truck and burst into flames.

Imagesshowed a fire engulfing several passenger carriages that were derailed at the scene near Kroonstad, 200 kilometres (125 miles) southwest of Johannesburg.

According to the provincial government health spokesman, Mondli Mvambi who spoke to the Press, “the death toll has increased to 12 with at least 180 people injured, two of them critically.”

Some of the victims were being attended to at the scene of the accident and some were that had serious degrees of injury were rushed to the hospital for intensive treatment.

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