ANGRY PASSENGERS STONE BUS, INJURE ONE-YEAR-OLD

The door of the bus and a window were shattered during the skirmish.

 
SITEKI – Drama unfolded at Lukhetseni near Tikhuba last Thursday when a group of angry passengers stoned a bus they were travelling in following a confrontation with bus conductors.
The skirmish resulted in a one-year-old child being hospitalised after sustaining serious head injuries.

Other passengers reportedly sustained minor injuries while the bus driver also sustained injuries on the arm and face.

Shattered

The skirmish, which reportedly occurred while the bus had stopped at a bus stop, left the vehicle with shattered windows and a damaged door.
Passengers on board the bus said the confrontation between the conductors and the three passengers was sparked by an incident in which a beer bottle was smashed on the bus window allegedly by one of the three men.

A passenger who was on board the bus explained: “The bus had stopped when three men, who had been quarrelling with a certain woman, stood up and moved towards the exit door. But before they could get out of the bus, they hurled insults at the woman they had been arguing with during the trip. One of the men threw a beer bottle which hit one of the windows. This prompted the bus conductors to push the men out of the bus, hence the confrontation”

It is said during the confrontation, two other men, who were reportedly armed with knobkerries, emerged and assisted the three passengers in fighting the conductors.
The conductors are said to have ran back into the bus while the men allegedly stoned the bus shuttering windows in the process.
Jeremiah Mbuli, the bus driver, said he was injured when he tried to assist the conductors.

Hit

“I was lucky since the stone hit me on the cheek and not the eye,” he stated briefly in an interview a day after the incident.
Paramedics are said to have been called to the scene and the injured passengers were rushed to Good shepherd hospital.
Police were also called to the scene.

Deputy Police Information and Communications Officer Assistant Superintendent Khulani Mamba confirmed the incident adding that five people have been detainted in connection with the incident.He stated that the detained suspects would possibly be charge with malicious damage to property.
 
 
 
 
 

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