{"id":69187,"date":"2017-07-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/69187\/badplaas-crash-victims-still-unidentified-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T10:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T08:13:15","slug":"badplaas-crash-victims-still-unidentified-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/07\/badplaas-crash-victims-still-unidentified-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Badplaas crash victims still unidentified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Altogether 18 contractors<\/a> of Nkomati Mine died in the collision between a truck and two Sprinter buses transporting more than 40 contractors to site.<\/p>\n

All the people involved in the accident, except for the truck driver, were employed by Franki Africa.<\/p>\n

The company is however owned by Keller in the United Kingdom and they have yet to issue a formal statement on the tragedy, with Franki Africa declining to go on record about the impact of the HR loss on its Nkomati operations.<\/p>\n

Three of the 18 autopsies of the Badplaas Road victims still had to be done on Thursday before print.<\/p>\n

Fifteen autopsies had already been performed before print. Eleven of the 18 crash victims still need to be formally identified by family members.<\/p>\n

Eight of them had already been declared by family members, though they could not be formally identified without copies of their ID\u2019s and other documents that were needed to attain a death certificate.<\/p>\n

Only the bodies of three crash victims had not been claimed by any families yet.<\/p>\n

Update + Video: 18 confirmed dead in Tuesday Badplaas Road slaughter<\/a><\/p>\n

BREAKING NEWS: 14 killed, scores injured after truck and two Sprinters collide on the Badplaas Road<\/a><\/p>\n

Nuusflits: 14 dood, tientalle beseer in gru botsing tussen trok en twee Sprinters op Badplaaspad<\/a><\/p>\n

The provincial government has announced that a memorial service for the crash victims will be held today (Friday, July 7).<\/p>\n

In a statement issued by the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison, it was confirmed that six of the deceased are local Machadodorp residents.<\/p>\n

The rest hail from KZN, the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and the Freestate.<\/p>\n

Of the 18, only one funeral had been held in Johannesburg in accordance with Muslim custom. None of the other bodies had been released by Thursday.<\/p>\n

The department says that Government and Nkomati Mine will assist bereaving families with counselling, burial costs, transport services and other logistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The autopsies on the people killed in Tuesday\u2019s horror crash on the Badplaas road were conducted by Middelburg\u2019s pathology services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}