Four members of British actress Helena Bonham Carter's family have been killed in a road accident while on a South African safari holiday.
Three other members of the family were injured when a tyre burst and the minivan they were in flipped several times, The Telegraph reported.
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Hollywood star has reportedly left the set of the new Terminator film in Mexico to fly back to Britain following the family tragedy.
A cousin of the actress, Fiona Egerton-Warburton, managed to drag herself from the wreck, despite a broken collarbone. One of her sons, Piers, 16, escaped with whiplash injuries, the newspaper said.
But another son, Marcus Egerton-Warburton, 14, was killed, as were his step-grandfather Francis Kirkwood, 74, the grandfather's wife Brenda Bonham Carter, also 74, and Kay Patricia Bonham Carter, 55, the wife of Marcus' uncle Graham Bonham Carter.
The family were travelling from Botswana to another safari park in neighbouring South Africa when the accident happened.
They were only a few kilometres from their destination at the Madikwe Game Lodge, in Thabazimbi, about 150km north of the capital Pretoria, according to the newspaper.
- AAP
