A police officer, a detained suspect and five others were killed in a head-on collision in Limpopo.
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- One police officer was killed and another injured in a road accident in Limpopo on Sunday morning.
- One suspect who was being transported in a police van also died.
- Five other people died in the accident.
Seven people, including a police officer and an arrested suspect, were killed in a road accident in Limpopo city early Sunday morning.
Another police officer was injured in the incident.
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Limpopo police chief Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe said the cause of the crash was still unknown and an investigation had begun.
It appears that a Renault sedan collided head-on with a police van traveling on the R101 from Mook Gophon towards Mokopane.
Hadebe said:
All five people in the Renault sedan and two people in the SAPS Toyota light delivery van (a police officer and the suspect) died at the scene.
The driver of the SAPS vehicle, a sergeant, was rushed to hospital where he is receiving treatment.
The police officer who died in the accident was identified as Constable MM Makwela, who was attached to the Naboomspruit police force.
“The true identity is [suspect] Those who also died at the scene and the five people who died in the other vehicle will be released once their next of kin have been notified,” Hadebe said.
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