Update: Warning – Graphic content: Three confirmed dead in gruesome accident in Mpumalanga

Three people have been confirmed dead, six seriously injured and three with slight injuries in an accident that took place 10 km outside of Middelburg on the R555, Middelburg Observer reports.

It is said that a Colt bakkie collided with a Nissan 1400 from the back.

The bakkie on which most of the injured people travelled.

Paramedics scrambled to tend to all the injured persons and were assisted by civilian bystanders who stopped and offered help.

A helicopter landed on the scene to transport some of the patients to hospital.

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Paramedics attending to a survivor

Frantic family members of those involved in the accident called the Middelburg Observer trying to find out whether their loved ones were amongst the dead or injured.

“We are just sitting here. We don’t know whether to go to the hospital or to the mortuary,” a woman who was waiting for news with her domestic worker, whose brother was in the accident, said.

The names of the deceased are not known yet.

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– Caxton News Service

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