Eastern Cape Floods and Damages.
Hundreds of people
have been shifted to safety after torrential rains caused floods that killed at
least 14 people and damaged houses in the Eastern Cape over the Weekend, among
the confirmed 14 dead is one of Eastern Cape’s most proficient South African
Police Service divers, Captain Pierre Marx (53) who drowned while rescuing
victims in East London.
According to Eastern
Cape Police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, Marx responded to a call
to rescue four people who were believed to have been swept off the Horse Shoe
Valley causeway, Kinana said Marx and His team established that one person was
on an island in the Nahoon River with the bodies of three people who had died
in the floodwaters.
“Kinana said the
police team managed to take the three bodies across the fast-moving river after
a successful rescue of the fourth person, believed to be a local farmer,
Captain Marx struggled with a strong current that swept Him away despite
attempts by His colleagues to rescue Him, Kinana said. He disappeared in the heavy stream and only
to be recovered in the early morning of Sunday the 9th January
2022”Kinana said.
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