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Global News Podcast

Dozens killed in South Africa bus crash

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

An eight-year-old girl is the only survivor as 45 die after the vehicle fell 50 metres into a ravine. Also: a new discovery may provide an alternative to surgery for those with the breast cancer gene, and Oppenheimer premieres in Japan to mixed reactions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.0

I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 29th of March,

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these are our main stories.

0:11.0

The authorities in South Africa say rescue workers have so far retrieved 20 bodies from the

0:17.2

sight of a bus crash in which 45 people died. Syria has blamed Israel for airstrikes near the city of Aleppo, which are reported to have killed dozens of people.

0:30.0

The Chinese technology firm Huawei says its profits more than doubled last year despite US sanctions.

0:37.0

Also in this podcast,

0:39.0

This has been one of the most exciting developments in cancer treatment in the last few years that our ability to kind

0:43.6

of retrain our immune system to remove damaged cells would be giving the drugs before any tumors arise.

0:49.5

How immunotherapy drugs could be an alternative to surgery for those with the breast cancer gene.

0:57.0

Police in South Africa are investigating why a bus plunged off an elevated section of road into a ravine,

1:07.6

bursting into flames and killing 45 people. An 8 year old girl is thought to be the sole survivor. She's in hospital

1:16.1

with serious injuries. The passengers who'd set off from Botswana were traveling to an

1:21.0

Easter church service. I got more details from our

1:24.1

correspondent Chingai and Yoko. What the transport minister said is that this

1:28.8

accident happened at 11 a.m. on Thursday, so it was in broad daylight there was no oncoming traffic.

1:35.5

This bus crashed into a ravine about 50 meters below the bridge and so it's

1:41.1

really been difficult to access the scene of the accident, the crash site,

1:45.6

to retrieve some of those bodies. It's a relatively large operation with sniffer dogs and we understand that

1:52.4

crane might be brought in to try to lift this bus up to try to recover some more of those victims.

1:58.0

Yes and it seems that nearly everyone on board died apart from this one little girl. Yes and it's quite an amazing story.

2:07.2

The reason why she survived they say is because she was flung out of the vehicle.

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