The Gauteng Department of Health regrets an incident that happened today at 09:45am on M1 south whereby a private undertaker trailer carrying 42 bodies from Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital to Olifantsvlei cemetery for pauper’s burials lost one of its wheels.

We are pleased to inform the public that no injuries were reported and the bodies are still intact. Of the 42 bodies, 16 were adults and 24 were still births.

Metro Police are on the scene whilst the Gauteng Forensic Pathology Services is organising transport to take the bodies to the cemetery for burials.

The department will launch an investigation to establish why the bodies were transported in an open trailer.

 

Issued by Gauteng Provincial Government