Free State Police found the bodies of eight people in a stream in Heilbron after an accident on Saturday.
Spokesperson Captain Loraine Earle says that a cup of bakery that passes passengers traveled along an unpaved road between two farms when the driver tried to cross a bridge with a layer of water.
She says that the vehicle was swept away by strong currents that led to the loss of multiple lives.
Search and rescue dogs were sent to the stage on Monday morning when the victims did not reach their destination.
Captain Earle says that the victims are the 71-year-old bus driver and his 62-year-old wife, three grandchildren, as well as a man and woman of in thirty with their two-year-old girl.
The police have opened an investigation docket and investigate the circumstances of the incident.
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