LISTEN: Witness to Durban pier tragedy speaks
A Durban resident who witnessed the tragic drowning incident at the city's North beach yesterday says the tide changed in a split-second.
A seven-year-old girl drowned after being swept from the North beach pier. Myron Naicker says the child's family immediately rushed to get help.
"There were two waves - one wave was a small wave that broke at the bottom of the pier, then a big wave came and broke on the pier. The mum and the son ran to the lifeguards to get the lifeguards to come to the sea.
"While we were still at the pier to try and see where the child was, unfortunately we couldn't see anything because of the current and the tide that was very rough," he says.
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The girl died at the scene - despite the efforts of lifeguards, paramedics and an off-duty doctor to try and revive her.
Listen to Naicker's account of what he witnessed below.