A municipality in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province has suspended schooling and health services amid heavy floods.
The floods have damaged roads and homes, leaving many families in Nkomazi Municipality displaced.
It comes as the number of people missing and those believed to have been swept away by the floods in the municipality rose to six, the Sowetan news site reports.
The municipality on Thursday reportedly said that two people had died of drowning.
Images of some of the devastation caused by the flooding has been shared online:
Road between White River-R40 – and Hazyview, MP. pic.twitter.com/3a3OArewDF
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