New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- A collision involving a minibus taxi and a truck killed at least 11 people in South Africa on Thursday, a local government official and emergency services said, just over a week after a similar road crash left 14 schoolchildren dead.

Thursday's crash happened near the city of Durban in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province. Provincial transport department official Siboniso Duma said in a statement that 11 people, including a schoolchild, died at the scene, although that was according to preliminary information.

"Witnesses have alleged that the truck driver made a U-turn resulting in a head-on collision," Duma said.

Garrith Jamieson, spokesperson for the private paramedic service ALS Paramedics, told the Associated Pr...