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Three killed in South Africa crash

Three British students have been killed in a truck crash while on a field trip in South Africa.

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Three British students have been killed in a truck crash in South Africa.

The driver lost control and the vehicle flipped over near the town of Barberton, while travelling from Swaziland to Nelspruit in the northeast of the country.

The truck was carrying 18 British students, two British teachers, a Zimbabwean driver and a South African tour guide.

Two of the dead were women, and the third was a man.

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The injured were taken to a private hospital in Nelspruit, where eight people are still being treated.

The animal management students were on a field trip from a college in Leicestershire in central England.

They had been due to fly home today, ahead of the World Cup.


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