Earlier this afternoon IPSS Medical Rescue Search & Rescue division responded to the Umvoti River in the Glendale area for reports of a five-year-old child that was swept downstream.
Reports indicate that the child was playing alongside the river, when she lost her footing, falling into the river and being swept away.
IPSS Medical Rescue, together with SAPS Police Divers, SAPS K9 SAR, and NSRI, searched the river using a drone and inflatable rafts.
Her body was located and recovered approximately 3km downstream of where she entered the water.
We remind all followers to exercise heightened caution around bodies of water and flowing water.
Condolences to the affected.
Fatal drowning of a 5-year-old in Umvoti River, Glendale https://t.co/YvnPP4jhyK#ArriveAlive #Drowning @IPSSRescue pic.twitter.com/eLDVMiPgl8
— Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) February 2, 2021