EC learner killed and eleven injured in two accidents

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An Eastern Cape learner was killed and 11 others injured in two accidents near Mthatha today.

Provincial traffic department spokesperson, Tsepo Machaya, says the scholar was hit by a car on the R-61 near Mthatha, this morning.

He says the second accident occurred on the N-2 between Mthatha and Qumba, when a bakkie carrying schoolchildren collided head-on with another vehicle.

Eleven learners and two adults were injured.

Machaya says the bakkie, driven by a learner driver, apparently skipped a stop street.