Coach death toll rises to 28.

A 60-year-old British woman who has been in intensive care since last month's South African coach crash has died, bringing the death toll to 28, it emerged yesterday.

Katherine Thompson, of Fulwood, Sheffield, who had been in Nelspruit Hospital since the September 27 accident, died following internal organ failure.

Her daughter Susan Coates was at her bedside and her son, Jeremy Thompson, was travelling to South Africa.

In total 27 British tourists and one South African tour guide died as a result of the crash, 135 miles east of Johannesburg.