In a statement released on Wednesday, provincial police spokesperson Colonel Mashay Gamieldien, said members of the South African Police Service’s Kimberley Search and Rescue Unit had placed their own lives at risk to rescue victims who were trapped in flooded areas and recover bodies of victims who drowned in strong-flowing rivers.
She said on February 6, officers retrieved the body of a 14-year-old boy who was believed to have drowned in the irrigation dam in Barkly West along the Pniel community farm. “It was believed that the family who were travelling in a donkey cart was washed away and trapped in the river. The two members were airlifted from Kuruman airport by an SANDF Oryx helicopter and flown to the scene, where they executed a live bait rescue which involved the lifting of each family member from the river. The family was brought to safety and dropped along the road, where the owner of the farm further assisted them,” Gamieldien said.
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