Lauren Isaacs4 October 2024 | 7:30

Teen dies after taxi carrying pupils overturns in Mitchells Plain

The incident happened on Swartklip Road on Friday morning.

Teen dies after taxi carrying pupils overturns in Mitchells Plain

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CAPE TOWN - A 14-year-old girl has died after a Quantum minibus taxi carrying schoolchildren overturned in Mitchells Plain.
 
The incident happened on Swartklip Road on Friday morning.
 
Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide, and the 25-year-old driver has been arrested.
 
The police's Frederick Van Wyk:

"Our preliminary report thus far is that the taxi transporting school children to different schools lost control and overturned... Some of the injured learners were transported to nearby hospitals."