WATCH | 14 ECape pupils injured in head-on collision

EASTERN CAPE - A bakkie, transporting school children from Oyster Bay Farm to Humansdorp High School in the Eastern Cape was involved in a head-on collision with another bakkie on Friday morning.

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The bus that normally transports the children broke down on the way to fetch them.

A mechanic tried to fix the bus and when he couldn't, he took the pupils to school on the back of his bakkie.

The pupils sustained various injuries and the DA is calling for the provincial transport department to intervene in the carnage.

eNCA's Nceba Ntlanganiso visited some of the family members of the victims and filed this report.