Dad, sons swept away by floods
2006-08-02 09:51
George - A search is on for a father and two sons who were swept away by floodwaters when a bridge collapsed on Tuesday evening in George, disaster management services said.
"The man was driving over a bridge with his two sons at 18:00 on Tuesday when the bridge collapsed, sweeping their light blue VW Golf down the stream," spokesperson Gerhard Otto said on Wednesday.
He said rescuers recovered the car during an overnight search in the river, with no sight of the father or either of his sons.
"The car was recovered about 100 metres from where the bridge collapsed... water levels have gone down a bit."
Otto said the Eden district municipality disaster management services and the Wilderness search and rescue teams were still searching.
But he would not speculate on whether there was still hope of recovering the missing people alive.
- SAPA