Emergency services say eight people including four children have been killed by electrocution in two separate events after days of heavy rain caused floods in impoverished informal settlements near the South African city of Cape Town.
Outages caused by the weather left more than 80,000 customers across the province without electricity, the national power utility said. That had been reduced to 15,000 by Tuesday as the rain eased.
Local officials said three people died after they were swept away by flood waters in the mainly agricultural region of Overberg, just over 100 kilometers east of Cape Town. The area is one of South Africa’s most important wheat-farming regions and there were fears of major damage to crops and infrastructure from the flooding.
Storms caused by cold fronts are common in the Cape Town region and the Western Cape province. A cold front in June caused around $50 million of damage to the agriculture sector in the Western Cape, according to the provincial government.The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting.
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