A lady stands at her entrance door after heavy rains prompted flood harm in Durban, South Africa, on Tuesday, April 12.
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Updated 5:39 PM ET, Wed April 13, 2022
A lady stands at her entrance door after heavy rains prompted flood harm in Durban, South Africa, on Tuesday, April 12.
Rogan Ward/Reuters
Heavy rains and flooding battered the jap coast of South Africa, killing a minimum of 259 folks whereas damaging houses and destroying roads.
The flooding hit the province of KwaZulu-Natal, which incorporates the coastal metropolis of Durban. Roads cracked and gave strategy to deep fissures. An enormous stack of delivery containers collapsed into muddy waters. A bridge was swept away, leaving folks stranded on both facet.
KwaZulu-Natal has skilled excessive rainfall since Monday. In a press release posted to Facebook, the provincial authorities referred to as it “one of many worst climate storms within the historical past of our nation.”
Teams have been working to evacuate areas that skilled “mudslides, flooding and structural collapses of buildings and roads,” Sipho Hlomuka, a member of the Executive Council for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal, stated on Twitter.