Cape Town, South Africa (AP) – Number of Death The basins in the South African Eastern Province of Cape Province rose to 86, police minister said on Saturday as rescuers continued Get bodies from the flood.
Senso Mchunu, the highest official for enforcement of the right in the country, spoke with the police rescue teams looking for missing people and recovering your surroundings city of Mthatha Because the floods intervened on Tuesday’s preliminary hours.
Mchuna said that floods were a tragedy, but urged the locals to ignore what he called inaccurate news spreading on the social media, that the disaster was caused by someone opening the gates of culverts to a nearby dam, leading to communities. Mchunu said that the Mthatha dam had no goals.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa On Friday, during the visit to Mthatha, he said the authorities would examine whether there would be any problems with a local dam that could lead to a tragedy.
From the river she spilled out of the river of the wall of water 3-4 meters (10-13 feet), said the head of the provincial government, said, said, washing the victims with parts of their houses and capturing others inside their homes.
Ramaphos partially attributed rain and floods of climate change and said some coastal regions in South Africa were now constantly vulnerable to the weather -related disasters. Over 400 people died during the floods In 2022 on the South African coast and its surroundings, which A study associated with climate change.
The Mthatha floods and neighboring neighborhoods have captured many people who did not know, despite the meteorological services that released a warning last week that an extreme cold queue was heading to the region, bringing heavy rains and winds.
The mostly rural region is one of the poorest and the offices in the country and said that communities living in informal housing near the river were particularly vulnerable to burst their banks. The authorities were criticized for rescue But also for the state of infrastructure in this area.
Officials believe that people are still missing and the death victim could continue to rise because the rescue teams search flood water and damaged houses for almost a week. One of the bodies gained on Saturday was a boy who rescuers believed he was about 13 or 14 years old.
Many children are dead, although the authorities have not received an exact number. Some victims were washed away by up to 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from their homes.
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