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PRASA vows to assist families of train-crash victims

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The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) says it will continue to support families of the victims who were involved in a 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 on Saturday for nine victims at Virginia, in the Free State, PRASA spokesperson Sipho Sithole says five people were also buried 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 gonna 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. We have managed to match 20 out of the 21 remains or bodies that are in the morgue ”

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