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Pretoria - Three people were seriously injured and five others received minor injuries during a stampede at the Pretoria Railway Station on Monday morning. Contacted on Monday afternoon, spokeswoman Lilian Mofokeng said Metrorail was not sure of the cause of the stampede. It was gathering information about what happened. Mofokeng said: “Because a train works according to time, people are constantly running up and down so they don’t miss their train. This could have been the cause.” Mofokeng confirmed that the injured commuters had been admitted to Tshwane District Hospital for treatment. The PAC has blamed the stampede on poor management, saying the incident was “depressing”. PAC regional chairman Sibusiso Xaba said some of the organisation’s members were involved in the incident “They confirmed the incident was due to poor management,” he said. “The PA (public address) system confused passengers, because they did not have proper train schedules, causing commuters to run up and down, creating a stampede.” Xaba claimed that the Passenger Rail Association of South Africa had failed to respond to complaints made by commuters regarding the Metrorail train service. He said the prolonged neglect of safety and uncaring behaviour in managing train schedules were disheartening, particularly for a public-owned entity. “If you remember, some time in March, the commuters marched against this very negligence, on safety issues, but Prasa seems not to care about the public’s safety,” said Xaba. The organisation called for the immediate resignation of Prasa’s management in the Tshwane metro area, “for failure to manage their operations in the region”. Prasa should compensate those who were injured on Monday, it said. Pretoria News -- -- Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to payco+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
