MSINGA. – A twelve-year-old boy drowned after going swimming in the late afternoon with a group of friends in a farm dam in the Msinga area in KwaZulu-Natal.
According to police, the boy got into difficulty while they were swimming. He was unable to come back to the surface of the water.
Police divers from Pietermaritzburg and Port Shepstone, members of the police's search and rescue team and the Pietermaritzburg K9 search and rescue unit were called to the scene.
The team initially conducted a surface search with the help of K9 Raven. After the dog gave an indication, a diving operation began. The boy's body was found at a depth of approximately three metres.
The rescue team had to carry the body in a special rescue basket approximately three kilometres to the nearest road accessible to vehicles. Local community members assisted with the return journey.
The body was handed over to Msinga police. An inquest into the death was opened.
Source: SAPD
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
