Nelspruit: 06 February 2023- A 62-year-old man was rescued after he found himself trapped together with his bakkie after attempting to cross the Komati River in the evening of Saturday, 04 February 2023.
According to the report, on that said day the pensioner was driving in his Toyota bakkie when he got stuck in the bridge of a swollen river. Fortunately the old man managed to get out from his car in time and took a stand on top of a rock which was in the middle of the raging waters of the river. Help was then summoned for him and he was later rescued by members of the police from Search and Rescue team. He then received medical treatment offered by the medical rescue team.
The Provincial Commissioner of the SAPS in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Semakaleng Daphney Manamela has pleaded with the public to consider the shower rains that were experienced in some parts of the province which made the dams and rivers swell. "We request community members to think twice before coming closer to the rivers or dams for whatever reason as this might place their lives at risk" pleaded the General.