City of Tshwane SAPS search team uncovered the body of a man yesterday afternoon, raising the flood death toll to six people. They found the body along the Olifantsfointein Road near the train bridge in Botha Avenue. And the Tshwane Emergency Services believe the man is the driver of an e-hailing vehicle. The occupants of which search teams have been looking for since the weekend.
Bodies Found So Far
Thursdays body was the sixth body found so far. After the fifth was the body of a woman found on Wednesday morning at the Olifantspruit near Irene. Emergency Services suspect that this body also belongs to a passenger from the same e-hailing vehicle.
These two new discoveries add to the four other bodies that had already been found by Monday after the Tshwane flood. These include a man found on Monday afternoon from a bakkie that was washed away in Centurion. Another man recovered by SAPS in Soul City informal settlement, Mamelodi, who had drowned in his shack. And the SAPS dive team recovered the body of a man that was washed away and stuck near the Centurion Lake Hotel. Who the authorities suspect washed out of his Audi SUV.
Also found was the body of a man who was in his boat with a friend. But was washed over the dam wall in the Roodeplaat dam with the floods. Tshwane Emergency Services spokesperson Charles Mabaso, confirms “Search teams discovered the body on Monday afternoon, downstream from the Roodeplaat Dam, near the SAPS K9 Unit and Moloto road”.