Three swimmers were swept away by a rogue wave, a violent maritime phenomenon, and 17 others were seriously injured on a popular South African beach, emergency services said on Sunday.
spokesman for the KwaZulu-Natal provincial emergency services, Robert Mckenzie confirmed that one of the dead was a child of 7 or 8 years.
Medical personnel were also attending to the 100 people affected by the incident.
Durban has been gradually reopening its beaches after they were closed due to high levels of E.coli from the city’s sewage system, which was severely damaged by floods this year. Those floods killed more than 400 people in April.
