Police have appealed to the public not to take short cuts across swollen rivers and streams after a pregnant mother and her daughter were found drowned on Friday morning.
”Many people drown this way,” said spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman, of the North Rand policing area.
The woman, Cecilia Masinga, and her four-year-old daughter, Nokia, were washed away in a flash flood in Ivory Park, north-east of Johannesburg, this week.
Police have opened an inquest docket.
Johannesburg emergency services spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said rescue workers found the two bodies close to one another, not far from a bridge over the Kalkspruit River close to the entrance of Ivory Park.
”With the water level dropping, we were able to move debris easier,” he said.
Police sniffer dogs had traced the bodies, said Opperman.
Masinga and her daughter were washed away by heavy rains on Thursday afternoon as they tried to cross a mass of water flowing through a concrete gutter.
The search team had been based at the bridge overnight, said Midgley. — Sapa