SowetanLive reports that a 61-year-old man has died at Putco’s Dobsonville depot in Soweto after he was run over by a bus driver while he was fixing the vehicle.

Ben Makgwale, a mechanic at the depot, died on the scene in the early hours of Wednesday. Putco spokesperson Matlakala Motloung reported as follows: “Makgwale was driving the bus to the workshop this morning to have it fixed. When he heard it making a funny noise, he decided to stop it right there in the middle of the depot, go underneath and check what the problem was. Someone then came and saw the bus in the middle of the depot, thinking it was left there and then got in the bus to drive it back where it should be. That's when Makgwale was driven over. Regrettably he died on the scene. The police were on the scene and busy with investigations,” said Motloung. She advised that trauma counselling was organised for all affected employees.

• Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Mpho Koka at SowetanLive

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