Coach crash injured fight for their lives
Injured holidaymakers are fighting for their lives after a bus crash in South Africa which killed four British tourists, three Canadians and two Germans.
Another Briton, believed to be a woman, was airlifted to hospital but was reported to be dead on arrival.
Tour operator Springbok Atlas said the bus, carrying 19 tourists, a driver and tour guide, left the road on the Pongola side of Piet Retief.
The company also operated the bus involved in another South African crash in September 1999 in which 26 elderly British tourists died.
The injured Britons are being treated at a hospital in Pretoria. Two of them are believed to be a Scottish couple, Alan Sutherland and Lynn Harper.
Investigators are analysing the bus tachometer to find out how the crash happened. Springbok Atlas has offered assistance to any of the families of the dead and injured, if they wish to fly to South Africa.
Six of those on board came from Canada - three of them died and three were injured. Two of the three German tourists on the bus were killed and the other was injured.
In a statement, Springbok Atlas said three of the tourists were in a serious condition with head, spinal and leg injuries respectively. The driver suffered serious head injuries and the tour guide suffered less severe head injuries.
