Eyewitness News19 June 2025 | 4:28
Police find another body during search for flood victims in EC
The last official death toll from a storm that battered the province last week stands at at least 90.
Eastern Cape EMS personnel recover a body following flooding in Mthatha on 11 June 2025. Picture: Jacques Nelles/EWN
JOHANNESBURG - Police have found another body during the search for flood victims in the Eastern Cape.
The last official death toll from a storm that battered the province last week stands at at least 90.
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Recovery operations are expected to continue for a few more days after some people were reported missing.
"Six o’clock, yesterday evening, a female body was discovered, aged around 17 or 20 – that was the body that was recovered yesterday," said Gift of the Givers head of search and rescue Ahmed Bham.