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 A suicidal prisoner apparently caused a collision between a police vehicle and a minibus-taxi that killed eight people near Moloto on Thursday evening, Mpumalanga police said.

The housebreaking suspect was travelling in a marked police bakkie with two officers when he allegedly tried to grab the steering wheel and drive off a bridge on the R573 shortly before 6pm, Captain Leonard Hlathi said.

As the three men wrestled for control of the vehicle they collided with an oncoming minibus-taxi.

The "slight collision" caused the taxi driver to lose control of his vehicle and overturn. Five men, including the driver, and three women were killed.

Both police officers, their prisoner and five other people were injured.

The officers, based in Tweefontein, were taking the man, who was in leg irons, to point out where he had hidden his loot.

The minibus was heading to Pretoria from Groblersdal, Limpopo. 

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