Parents of the 13 pupils who died in a collision between a scholar transport vehicle and a truck in Vanderbijlpark on Monday morning forcefully entered the crash site where their dead children lay in the wreckage after police repeatedly tried to stop them from gaining access.
The parents said they had been at the scene since 7am after seeing multiple videos circulating on social media, which they believed showed their children among the victims.
Desperate to identify their loved ones, parents pushed past police lines to view the bodies of the children. The emotional scenes were marked by sobbing as families came face to face with the devastating reality of their loss.
