Floods Wash Away Bridges, Close Routes to Key South African Port
- At least 20 people may have died in the floods, eNCA reports
- Local media reports show shipping containers adrift in water
Residents next to a collapsed embankment following heavy rain near Durban, South Africa, on April 12.
Photographer: Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images
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Key highways linking South Africa’s biggest port to the commercial hub of Johannesburg and its eastern seaboard were closed as severe flooding hit the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The so-called N3 highway that connects Johannesburg to the port of Durban has been closed to southbound traffic because of debris on the road caused by the floods, KWaZulu-Natal’s Transport Department said on Twitter. Bridges on the N2, the main highway along the nation’s Indian Ocean coastline, have been washed away, Parboo Sewpersad, a spokesman for eThekwini Metropolitan police, said on Durban-based East Coast Radio.