Man dies, apparently from electrocution
Heavy rains and winds battered the Western Cape on Sunday and Monday, forcing hundreds of families to flee their flooded homes. In Covid Village in Mfuleni, a man died, apparently electrocuted by a live wire in the water.
"When I saw the hood of his hooded jacket peeping out of the water, I thought it was just a jacket that had been washed away by the floods," he said. Melento said:"When I tried to get off my bed and place my foot on the floor, I got an electric shock today.""We cut off all the illegal connections so that the residents could not get electrocuted when they come into contact with the rain water," she said.
Thuba said:"We are used to floods, but the ones we are experiencing now are worse than the previous ones." Deneo Molekwa, who lives with her seven-year-old daughter, said rain water was knee-high when she woke up at about 4am. She rushed out without any change of clothes.
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