A sixteen-year-old –boy has tragically drowned at Pelican Island in Richards Bay this afternoon at around 14h27. Reports indicate that two boys swam across the bay when one disappeared under the water.
Netcare 911 paramedics and the N S R I searched the area and was unable to find the child. The sap divers was called to the scene and managed to retrieve the boy from the bottom of the bay, tragically he was declared dead at the scene.