India, 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, said 11 were dead and severa...