About 45 people died last Thursday after an accident involving a passenger bus that fell into an abyss near the South African town of Limpopoabout 380 kilometers north of Johannesburg.

According to the Daily Sun newspaper, the accident occurred after the bus, which It was transporting some parishioners on their way to an Easter pilgrimagefell from the Mamatlakala bridge about 50 meters deep, near a point known as Mokopane.

After the fall, the bus was consumed by flames and 45 of its 46 occupants died almost instantly. The only survivor, an 8-year-old girl, She was immediately transferred to a hospital.

The Daily Sun reported that, according to police accounts, The driver lost control and crashed into the bridge barriers, which caused the vehicle to go over it and fall to the ground, where it caught fire.

Rescue operations continued late into the night of Thursday, March 28, when Some bodies were burned beyond recognition, others were trapped in the rubble and others were scattered around the place. The bus was supposedly headed from Gaborone, in neighboring Botswana, to Moria, near the town of Polokwane.