{"id":914797,"date":"2022-01-09T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/09\/six-killed-as-floods-devastate-eastern-cape-cities\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:31:56","slug":"six-killed-as-floods-devastate-eastern-cape-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/six-killed-as-floods-devastate-eastern-cape-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Six killed as floods devastate Eastern Cape cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8f2b36e5-b89a-5a37-9541-c7a7ab49f7b3&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x276&#038;resize=5529x3110.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>At least six people, including a diver, have been killed in flash flooding from torrential rains in South Africa&#8217;s Eastern Cape province, a senior regional official said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A total of six people died in separate incidents including a member of the&#8230; police services,&#8221; Oscar Mabuyane, the Eastern Cape provincial premier said in a statement, updating the death toll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The policeman died conducting rescue and recovery operations.<\/p>\n<p>Sudden rains pounded parts of the southern province including East London, on the Indian Ocean coast, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours, low lying areas were severely flooded, a local government official told AFP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Among the worst hit was Mdantsane, a sprawling township on the outskirts of East London.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of people mainly in Mdantsane have been displaced and some roads are &#8220;completely submerged making access to distressed communities that much more difficult,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>sn\/bp<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a9 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people, including a diver, have been killed in flash flooding from torrential rains in South Africa&#8217;s Eastern Cape province, a senior regional official said Sunday. &#8220;A total of six people died in separate incidents including a member of the&#8230; police services,&#8221; Oscar Mabuyane, the Eastern Cape provincial premier said in a statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}