School children killed in SA road accident

At least 14 people, nine of them schoolchildren, were killed in a six-vehicle accident on a major road in South Africa, the South African Press Association reported.

Police Captain Stephen Marais said a group of schoolchildren returning to Elliotdale, near the east coast town of East London, in two minibus taxis were involved in the accident on the N2 highway shortly after 7pm yesterday (5pm Irish Time).