KZN drowning incidents claim four lives
KZN authorities are investigating three separate drowning incidents in the province this weekend that left four people dead.
In one incident - two men drowned at Virginia beach in Durban North yesterday.
Netcare911 paramedics responded to the incident and on their arrival found that the second man had tried to save a fisherman who has washed off from the pier.
Athlende Mathe says emergency services tried for some time to resuscitate a 25-year-old man who was found at the shoreline.
"Sadly, there was nothing more that paramedics could do and the man was declared dead at the scene. The second body of a 23-year-old man washed up on the beach and sadly the man was also declared dead at the scene by paramedics," she said.
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The exact details as to what happened is being investigated by police.
Meanwhile in another incident - police are investigating a case of inquest after a 16-year-old girl drowned at Blue Lagoon in Durban on Saturday night.
The body of a man was also recovered from the Izotsha River near Port Shepstone on the KZN south coast at the weekend.