/ 17 March 2000

KEI BRDIGE COLLAPSES, KILLING 8

EIGHT people died and four are missing when a bridge across the swollen Kei river collapsed. One survivor has been plucked from the raging waters. A light truck with 10 people on board and a bus carrying only two or three people tired to cross a bridge about halfway between Queenstown and Cofimvaba when it collapsed, police spokesman Captain Andr Beetge said. Heavy rains in the Eastern Cape has swollen some streams and rivers to dangerous levels. The bodies were found two kilometres downstream.