WATCH: One-on-one with SA and African heavyweight boxing champ zululandobserver.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zululandobserver.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pregnant woman one of two who drowned at KZN beach
By Thobeka Ngema
Share
Durban - AN eight-months pregnant woman was one of the two women who drowned at Trafalgar Beach, Port Edward on Sunday afternoon.
The women had got into difficulty in rip currents and were swept out to sea.
An unidentified 9-year-old surfer and a father and son helped save the lives of two teenagers and recover the bodies of the women.
Police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said an inquest docket was being investigated by Margate police after two women aged 26 and 30 drowned at Trafalgar Beach on Sunday around 6pm.
Claudine Senekal,Ladysmith Herald
An unidentified nine year old surfer has been hailed as a hero after rescuing a teenager who got into difficulty in a rip current on the KZN South Coast this weekend.
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said that on Sunday afternoon, NSRI Port Edward, SA Police Services, Police Search and Rescue and Medevac ambulance services attended an incident at Trafalgar Beach, KZN South Coast, where two teenagers, a girl and a boy, and two women got into difficulty in rip currents and were swept out to sea. A local unidentified 9 year old surfer, using his surfboard, rescued the teenage boy from the water.