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Your support makes all the difference.Police divers are struggling to find possible survivors after a bus believed to be carrying 90 people plunged into a reservoir in South Africa.
Five bodies have been recovered so far and ten survivors have also been pulled from the dam outside the town of Bethlehem in the centre of the country.
"The chances of finding anybody alive now are slim," said police superintendent Sam Sesing .
The bus was carrying members of South Africa's largest trade union to a May Day workers celebration in the Free State province when their bus driver apparently lost his way and ended up driving down a gravel path that led to the dam.
"I am utterly shocked. I don't know what to say," said Patrick Craven, a spokesman for the Congress of South African Trade Unions spokesman.
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