Twenty-two people were killed, 16 of them school children, when a packed passenger train crashed into a stationary freight train in eastern South.
The crash occurred at Charlotte's Dale, some 70 km north of the Indian Ocean port city of Durban around 2 p.m. (Irish Time) yesterday.
"At the moment the death toll has risen to 22, we had 16 school children who died in the accident and six adults," a police spokesman said.
A total of 117 people were injured, of whom 81 were slight injuries and 36 were seriously injured, he said.
The passenger train was mainly carrying school children, he said.
