Teachers horrified by freak accident claiming boy’s life
The high school group of pupils would have been heading home to Lesotho when tragedy struck and a boy was killed in a freak bus accident.
TEARFUL teachers of Molapho High School, in Lesotho waited patiently hours after the freak accident which claimed the life of a 16 year old pupil on Thursday afternoon.
According to educator, Mtjama Mokoma, the boy Maliehe Letsoela was travelling with a group of high school pupils on an educational school trip to South Africa. “We left the Durban hotel and were on our way to get lunch before heading home,” Mokoma said before the tragedy occured.
The school trip started on Monday and the pupils enjoyed local attractions including a visit to Shakaland, uShaka Marine World’s aquarium, museums and were on their way to the Pietermaritzburg zoo before heading back to Lesotho later yesterday.
“It’s terrible seeing the kids crying with us teachers trying to comfort them. It is just a shocking tragedy, I can’t even believe it,” Mokoma said.Another pupil who was sitting on the three seater with the deceased pupil was admitted to hospital for shock.
The school principal had to inform the boy’s parents who were in Lesotho at the time of the accident.
According to EMS media liaison officer, Robert Mckenzie, reports surfaced that the boy had his head out the window when the bus passed a pole on the side of the road. The pole reportedly struck the boy who was part of a group that that been travelling on a bus along the narrow Dick King Street in Durban. “Emergency services, including KZN Emergency Medical Services paramedics responded to the scene and found that the boy had sadly died. KZN EMS paramedics treated another child who had been an occupant on the bus but details of this child’s injuries and condition are not immediately clear at the time of this report,” he said.
