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The death toll from flood-related incidents in the Eastern Cape has risen to four.
This, after Peddie police recovered the body of three people, including a local detective, from a nearby river.
Provincial police spokesperson, brigadier Marinda Mills, says they initially found the wreckage of a car that had washed up on the river banks.
She says upon further investigation the bodies of three adult males were recovered.
The body of a 32-year-old woman was found in a gorge at Witteklip west of Port Elizabeth on Thursday morning.
Police diver also rescued two people after their truck fell off a bridge on the N-2 between Peddie and King Williams Town in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Heavy rain in the past 24 hours, which dumped 165mm of rain in Port Alfred and significant falls in several others towns, caused localised flooding and the evacuation of hundreds of people in low-lying areas in Nelson Mandela Bay.
The municipality is also monitoring dams which are overflowing as more rain is expected from Thursday night into the weekend.
In Buffalo City several areas were left without power while trees were uprooted and power cables and electric poles knocked over by heavy wind and rain.
Many homes and shacks in informal settlement were underwater as 42mm of rain fell in the past 24 hours.
