17 other people were hospitalized with serious injuries on Saturday, according to a spokesman for the emergency services in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. A child aged seven or eight is among the dead. The accident happened on Saturday afternoon at the Bay of Plenty, a popular beach in the metropolis of Durban. The people hit by the extreme wave were pulled away from the beach and out into the sea. The rescue services expressed the fear that the number of victims could increase.
Durban had only gradually begun to reopen its beaches in the past few weeks after they were closed due to an increased incidence of the disease-causing E. coli bacterium. The bacteria came from the city’s sewers, which had been damaged by floods in April. More than 400 people died in these floods.
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