Twenty killed in South African crash

The South African Transport Minister, Dullah Omar, has announced an official investigation into a bus crash, which killed twenty people, including six children.

More than forty others on board were injured, when the vehicle plunged off a mountain pass sixty kilometres north of the city of East London.

Police said the driver lost control on a bend and the vehicle fell thirty metres down an embankment.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service