Prasa assists with Free State train crash victims

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) says it will continue to support families of the victims who were involved in the Free State train crash with lodging claims and other benefits.

21 people died when the Shosholoza Meyl hit a truck at a level crossing between Henneman and Kroonstad early last month.

Speaking at the mass funeral for nine victims at Virginia, in the Free State, Prasa spokesperson Sipho Sithole says five people are also being buried on Saturday in Gauteng and two in the Eastern Cape.

Sithole says they are still waiting to hear from other families about their funeral arrangements.

“However, we still have bodies all that have been matched through the DNA processes – where some families have said they are not going to bury this weekend. They will tell us when to bury, because we’ve said to them that from the beginning that, we will be guided by them.”

“We will only do what they asking us to do, so I’m assuming that next weekend we will be having funerals again. And we have managed, out of the 21 remains or bodies that are in the morgue, to match 20,” says Sithole.

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