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A col­li­sion in­volv­ing a minibus taxi and a truck killed at least 11 peo­ple in South Africa on Thurs­day, a lo­cal gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial and emer­gency ser­vices said, just over a week af­ter a sim­i­lar road crash left 14 school­child­ren dead.

Thurs­day’s crash hap­pened near the city of Dur­ban in the east­ern KwaZu­lu-Na­tal province. Provin­cial trans­port de­part­ment of­fi­cial Si­bon­iso Du­ma said in a state­ment that 11 peo­ple, in­clud­ing a school­child, died at the scene, al­though that was ac­cord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary in­for­ma­tion.

“Wit­ness­es have al­leged that the truck dri­ver made a U-turn re­sult­ing in a head-on col­li­sion,” Du­ma said.