Amathole District Municipality (ADM)
The Buffalo City Municipality says five people, including a policeman, drowned during flooding after a storm hit the Metro at the weekend.
According to an interim status report yesterday, the deceased include an 18-year-old who drowned in Unit 3 in Gomora Skwatta Camp in Mdantsane.
The report also says four other people drowned in the Nahoon River at Horseshoe Valley, including a member of the SAPS search and rescue team, 53-year-old Captain Pierre Marx.
The names of the other victims were not released.
Meanwhile, Amathole District Municipality also reported that three people drowned when a vehicle with four occupants was swept away by floodwaters near Dutywa.
Rescue workers searched for the missing family members and eventually discovered their bodies in the Shixini River on Sunday.
