Plans underway for SANDF bus crash victims memorial service

Memorial service planned for victims of bus crash

Plans for a memorial service to be held for eleven SANDF personnel who died in a bus accident on Friday are underway.

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The bus overturned on the R712 in the Golden Gate Reserve in the Free State.

 

31 others were injured.

 

Three are still in a critical condition in hospital. 

 

 SANDF spokesperson Brigadier General Xolani Mabanga says arrangements are being made for the service to be held  on Wednesday next week.

 

"The funeral arrangements will only be finalised after the families have decided when they would like to bury their deceased" he says.

 

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula visited the injured at several hospitals in Bloemfontein on Saturday.

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