Bodies of two KwaDukuza boys recovered from hole
The bodies of two KwaDukuza boys have been recovered from a hole they were buried in after it collapsed on them.
It's understood they'd been digging for sand when the tragedy happened.
The mortuary van has arrived and has removed both the bodies from scene @ECR_Newswatch Distraught family have also come out, they say they cannot believe this has happened. pic.twitter.com/vJCbbRCHAH
— Nushera Raisa Soodyal (@nushera) July 9, 2020
Distraught and shocked family of the nine-year-old and 12-year-old boys watched on as search and rescue officials pulled out the bodies of their children from the hole, just metres from both their homes.
It took rescuers about half-an-hour to retrieve the bodies with a stokes basket - before carrying them to the mortuary van.
READ: Two boys die in KwaDukuza earth collapse
Their families say the children were paid five rand each to help a neighbour to dig up sand for building his home.
Two boys have been killed in #Kwadukuza, north of #Durban.It’s understood that they were digging a hole to collect sand for building a home when the earth around them collapsed on them.@ECR_Newswatch pic.twitter.com/HdQijqtyfK
— Nushera Raisa Soodyal (@nushera) July 9, 2020
The man had gone off to offload some of the material when the two-meter deep hole caved in and buried them.
The man is said to have alerted the families about what had happened and then disappeared.
