UPDATE: #DurbanStorm – five confirmed fatalities
Inclement weather conditions in Durban do not seem to be subsiding.
At least five known fatalities directly relating to the Durban storms have been confirmed.
According to Arrive Alive, a 12-year-old was swept away this afternoon in a flash flood in Izingolweni and sadly passed away.
A 12 year old boy has been swept away in a stream and sadly passed away. This occurred at Izingolweni, inland from Port Shepstone @kznems
— Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) October 10, 2017
In an incident reported earlier, one person was killed and another injured after a shipping container fell on a vehicle travelling on Rotterdam road in Bayhead in Durban.
“When ER24 arrived on scene at approximately 10H59, they found a vehicle underneath two containers. Upon further assessment, they found two patients, both males, trapped inside the vehicle.
Both patients had to be extricated with the jaws of life. Unfortunately, there was nothing that could be done for the one patient and he was declared dead on the scene by another medical service. The other patient was transported to a hospital by another medical service on scene.”
One killed and one injured after shipping containers fell on vehicle https://t.co/oe63Pai2ro #ArriveAlive @ER24EMS pic.twitter.com/Tr6vfVS4Nl
— Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) October 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/m_londow/status/917790092013588480
Emergency services and traffic control advise motorists to stay off the roads.
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