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Good Samaritans killed

KAVISH Ramnarayan and Zithulele Ntshangase shared a common purpose: to help people in need. But both died doing so.

On Friday night, the two men responded to an incident on the N3 near the Liberty Mall in Pietermaritzburg where a truck had overturned.

Ntshangase, 47, a Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) officer, had cordoned off the area, allowing paramedics to assist the injured driver.

While Ramnarayan, 31, a tow-truck operator, was trying to recover the vehicle, another truck ploughed into them. Both men were killed

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